Template:JULIANDAY.DAYNAME
Takes a Julian day number and returns the day of week (proleptic), in the full name format as from the magic word {{CURRENTDAYNAME}}.
Usage
[edit]{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|Julian day number}}
Examples
[edit]{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|{{JULIANDAY|-4799|3|1|0|0|0}}}}→ Thursday (proleptic) (in year 4800 BC), first Gregorian date where the result is warrantied to be correct by {{JULIANDAY}}{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|{{JULIANDAY|-4799|3|1}}}}→ Thursday (proleptic) (in year 4800 BC), same date at noon{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|{{JULIANDAY|-4799|3|2}}}}→ Friday (proleptic) (in year 4800 BC), tests the 1 day increment{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|-7}}→ Monday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|-6}}→ Tuesday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|-5}}→ Wednesday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|-4}}→ Thursday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|-3}}→ Friday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|-2}}→ Saturday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|-1}}→ Sunday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|-0.5001}}→ Sunday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|-0.5}}→ Monday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|-0.4999}}→ Monday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|0}}→ Monday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|0.4999}}→ Monday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|0.5}}→ Tuesday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|0.5001}}→ Tuesday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|6.5}}→ Monday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|7}}→ Monday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|{{JULIANDAY|2000|1|1|0}}}}→ Saturday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|{{JULIANDAY|2026|8|5|0}}-1}}→ Tuesday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|{{JULIANDAY|2026|8|5|0|0|0}}}}→ Wednesday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|{{JULIANDAY|2026|8|5|20|27|12}}}}→ Wednesday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|{{JULIANDAY|2026|8|5|23|59|59}}}}→ Wednesday- Compare with
{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}→ Wednesday
- Compare with
{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|2461258.3522222}}→ Wednesday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|{{JULIANDAY|2026|8|5|3}}+1}}→ Thursday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|{{JULIANDAY|2026|8|5|6}}+2}}→ Friday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|{{JULIANDAY|2026|8|5|9}}+3}}→ Saturday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|{{JULIANDAY|2026|8|5|12}}+4}}→ Sunday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|{{JULIANDAY|2026|8|5|15}}+5}}→ Monday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|{{JULIANDAY|2026|8|5|18}}+6}}→ Tuesday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|{{JULIANDAY|2026|8|5|21}}+7}}→ Wednesday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|{{JULIANDAY|2027|1|1|0}}}}→ Friday{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|83602353.50}}→ Thursday
Example for invalid Julian day
[edit]{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME}}→ Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|}}→ Expression error: Missing operand for +.{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|-}}→ Expression error: Missing operand for -.{{JULIANDAY.DAYNAME|foo}}→ Expression error: Unrecognized word "foo".
See also
[edit]- {{WEEKDAYABBREV}}, which converts weekday names to their abbreviations
- {{WEEKDAYNUMBER}}, which converts weekday names to a number format
- {{JULIANDAY}}
- {{JULIANDAY.YEAR}}
- {{JULIANDAY.MONTH}}
- {{JULIANDAY.DAY}}