.. _functx_day-of-week:

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functx:day-of-week
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The day of the week, from a date

Description
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The functx:day-of-week function returns the day of the week of $date as a 
number, where 0 is Sunday, 1 is Monday, etc.

The $date argument must be castable to xs:date, meaning that it must have the 
type xs:date or xs:dateTime, or be an xs:string or untyped value of the form 
YYYY-MM-DD.

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   * - **Parameters**
     - **Description**
   * - date:date()
     - the date

Examples
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   * - **XPath**
     - **Results**
     - **Explanation**
   * - functx:day-of-week(xs:date('2004-11-04'))
     - 4
     - Thursday
   * - functx:day-of-week(xs:dateTime('2004-11-04T12:00:13'))
     - 4
     - Thursday
   * - functx:day-of-week('2004-11-04')
     - 4
     - Thursday

See Also
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* :ref:`functx_day-of-week-name-en`.
* :ref:`functx_day-of-week-abbrev-en`.