Template:WEEKDAYNAME/doc

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This template returns the name of the weekday whose ISO week date day number is in parameter. Alternatively, the English weekday name or abbreviation (with any letter case) can be given.

Usage

Syntax

{{WEEKDAYNAME|day}}

The day value can be any numeric expression and is interpreted modulo 7 (extra leading zeroes and decimals are ignored).

Examples for all standard English week day names

{{WEEKDAYNAME|MONDAY}} returns Monday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|TUESDAY}} returns Tuesday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|WEDNESDAY}} returns Wednesday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|THURSDAY}} returns Thursday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|FRIDAY}} returns Friday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|SATURDAY}} returns Saturday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|SUNDAY}} returns Sunday

Examples for all abbreviated English week day names

{{WEEKDAYNAME|mon}} returns Monday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|tue}} returns Tuesday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|wed}} returns Wednesday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|thu}} returns Thursday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|fri}} returns Friday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|sat}} returns Saturday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|sun}} returns Sunday

Examples for all standard week day numbers

{{WEEKDAYNAME|0}} returns Sunday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|1}} returns Monday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|2}} returns Tuesday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|3}} returns Wednesday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|4}} returns Thursday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|5}} returns Friday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|6}} returns Saturday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|7}} returns Sunday

Examples for week day numbers with extra leading zero

{{WEEKDAYNAME|00}} returns Sunday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|01}} returns Monday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|02}} returns Tuesday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|03}} returns Wednesday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|04}} returns Thursday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|05}} returns Friday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|06}} returns Saturday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|07}} returns Sunday

Examples for week day number cyclic underflows and overflows, from computed values

{{WEEKDAYNAME|-701}} returns Saturday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|-700}} returns Sunday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|-699}} returns Monday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|-7}} returns Sunday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|-6}} returns Monday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|-5}} returns Tuesday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|-4}} returns Wednesday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|-3}} returns Thursday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|-2}} returns Friday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|-1}} returns Saturday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|-0.0001}} returns Saturday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|0.0001}} returns Sunday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|0.9999}} returns Sunday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|7}} returns Sunday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|8}} returns Monday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|9}} returns Tuesday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|10}} returns Wednesday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|13}} returns Saturday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|14}} returns Sunday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|15}} returns Monday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|700}} returns Sunday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|701}} returns Monday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|707}} returns Sunday


Type	Adjustable	Current	Last	Next
Date and time	{{time}}	{{Currentdate}} (MDY) {{Plain now}} (DMY) {{Now}} (DMY in a complete sentence) {{Simple now}}
Date only	{{Dateonly}} {{Datedow}} (Has the day of the week)	{{Date}} (Chose format) {{TODAY}} (DMY)	{{Yesterday}} {{Day-1}}	{{Tomorrow}} {{Day+1}}
Month and year only		{{Monthyear}} {{DATE}} (prefixed by date=)	{{Monthyear-1}} {{Last month}}	{{Monthyear+1}} {{Next month}}
Time only	{{Timeonly}} (Adjustable to 12 h format)	{{CURRENTTIME}} (24 h format)
Banners		{{Right now}} (Blue with time and number of Wikipedia articles)
Timestamp		{{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} (Format YYYYMMDDhhmmss)

Single units of time


Unit of time	Adjustable	Current	Last	Next
Second		{{CURRENTSECOND}}
Minute		{{CURRENTMINUTE}}
Hour		{{CURRENTHOUR}}
Week		{{CURRENTWEEK}} {{CURRENTWEEKOFMONTH}}
Day of Week	{{DAYOFWEEK}}	{{CURRENTDAYNAME}} {{CURRENTDAYNAMEABBREV}} {{CURRENTWEEKDAY}} (1–7, ISO) {{CURRENTDOW}} (0–6)
Month	{{MONTHNAME}} {{MONTHABBREV}} {{MONTHNUMBER}} {{MONTH}} (zero padded)	{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} {{CURRENTMONTH1}} {{CURRENTMONTHDAYS}}	{{LASTMONTHNAME}} {{Last month (short)}}	{{NEXTMONTHNAME}} {{Next month (short)}}
Day of Month		{{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTDAY2}} (zero padded)
Year		{{CURRENTYEAR}} {{CURRENTYEARCC}} {{CURRENTYEARYY}} {{CURRENTISOYEAR}}	{{LASTYEAR}}	{{NEXTYEAR}}
Day of Year		{{CURRENTDAYOFYEAR}}
Decade	{{DECADE}}	{{CURRENTDECADE}}
Century	{{Century}}	{{CURRENTCENTURY}}
Millenium	{{MILLENNIUM}}

Date and time templates made for substitution

Parser functions

mw:Special:MyLanguage/time permits a custom time specifier string, similar to the C date and time functions

Individual templates

Categories of templates

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