A day of the week. Used for questions related to programming problems that involve `weekday`: calculation, triggering an event, discovery of a specific day etc
Questions tagged [weekday]
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How do I get the day of week given a date?
I want to find out the following:
given a date (datetime object), what is the corresponding day of the week?
For instance, Sunday is the first day, Monday: second day.. and so on
And then if the input is something like today's date.
Example
>>>…
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Start of week for locale using Joda-Time
How do you determine which day of the week is considered the “start” according to a given Locale using Joda-Time?
Point: Most countries use the international standard Monday as first day of week (!). A bunch others use Sunday (notably USA). Others…
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NSCalendar first day of week
Does anyone know if there is a way to set the first day of the week on a NSCalendar, or is there a calendar that already has Monday as the first day of the week, instead of Sunday.
I'm currently working on an app that is based around a week's worth…
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How to get localized short day-in-week name (Mo/Tu/We/Th...)
Can I get localized short day-in-week name (Mo/Tu/We/Th/Fr/Sa/Su for English) in Java?
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Get next date from weekday in JavaScript
How can one return the next date of a given weekday (it could be either a number 0-6 or names Sunday-Saturday).
Example, if today, on Friday 16-Oct-2009 I passed in:
Friday, it would return today's date 16-Oct-2009
Saturday returns…
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Get weekdays in English in R
I am using R outside the US and I got everything working in English, but the result of weekdays() is still in Spanish:
Day <- seq(as.Date("2013-06-01"), by=1, len=30)
weekdays(Day)
[1] "sábado" "domingo" "lunes" "martes" "miércoles" …
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Previous weekday in Python
In Python, given a date, how do I find the preceding weekday? (Weekdays are Mon to Fri. I don't care about holidays)
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How to add number of days to a date, consider only business days (i.e. ignore weekends)?
I'm trying to create a formula to calculate the n-th Business Date (only Monday to Friday are business days).
For simplicity's sake, holidays are not important; only weekends should be ignored.
For example:
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c++ day of week for given date
I am trying to write a simple program in c++ that returns the day of the week for a given date.
The input format is day, month, year. I cannot get it to work with leap years. I tried subtracting one from the a variable when the input year is a leap…
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How to get the day of the week from a Unix timestamp (PHP)?
How do I get the day (1-7) from a Unix timestamp in PHP? I also need the day date (1-31) and month (1-12).
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Num day to Name day with Pandas
If I use this funtion pd.DatetimeIndex(dfTrain['datetime']).weekday I get number of the day, but I don't find any function which give the name of de day... So I need to convert 0 to Monday, 1 to Tuestday and so on.
Here is an example of my…
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Return a list of weekdays, starting with given weekday
My task is to define a function weekdays(weekday) that returns a list of weekdays, starting with the given weekday. It should work like this:
>>> weekdays('Wednesday')
['Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday', 'Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday']
So…
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Swift - Weekday by current location by currentCalendar()
Today is Wednesday and I have this code
let calendar:NSCalendar = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()
let dateComps:NSDateComponents = calendar.components(.CalendarUnitWeekday , fromDate: NSDate())
let dayOfWeek:Int = dateComps.weekday
dayOfWeek is 4, but…
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Generate series of week intervals for given month
In a Postgres 9.1 database, I am trying to generate a series of weeks for a given month but with some constraints. I need all weeks to start on Monday and get cut when they start or end in another month.
Example:
For February, 2013 I want to…
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How to check if current time falls within a specific range on a week day using jquery/javascript?
When a user visits a page I need to check if the current time falls between 9:00 am and 5:30pm on a weekday and display something using jquery/javascript.But I am not sure how can check that.
Could someone please help?
Thanks
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