MACROMEDIA COLFUSION MX 7-CFML Reference page 561

DayOfWeek
Description
Determines the day of the week, in a date.
Returns
The ordinal for the day of the week, as an integer in the range 1 (Sunday) to 7 (Saturday).
Category
Date and time functions
Function syntax
DayOfWeek("date")
See also
,
Day DayOfWeekAsString
Parameters
Parameter
date
Usage
When passing a date/time object as a string, you must enclose it in quotation marks. Otherwise, it
is interpreted as a numeric representation of a date/time object.
Note: You can pass the
example,
#DayOfWeek(CreateDate(2001, 3, 3))#
Example
<h3>DayOfWeek Example</h3>
<cfif IsDefined("FORM.year")>
More information about your date:
<cfset yourDate = CreateDate(FORM.year, FORM.month, FORM.day)>
<cfoutput>
<p>Your date, #DateFormat(yourDate)#.
<br>It is #DayofWeekAsString(DayOfWeek(yourDate))#, day
#DayOfWeek(yourDate)# in the week.
<br>This is day #Day(YourDate)# in the month of
#MonthAsString(Month(yourDate))#, which has
#DaysInMonth(yourDate)# days.
<br>We are in week #Week(yourDate)# of #Year(YourDate)# (day
#DayofYear(yourDate)# of #DaysinYear(yourDate)#).
<br><cfif IsLeapYear(Year(yourDate))>This is a leap year
<cfelse>This is not a leap year</cfif>
</cfoutput>
</cfif>
,
DayOfYear
Description
Date/time object, in the range 100 AD–9999 AD.
function or
CreateDate
, ,
DaysInMonth DaysInYear
function as the
Now
,
FirstDayOfMonth
parameter of this function; for
date
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