FEEL

day of week

FEEL built-in function · FEEL date and time functions

day of week(date)

Returns the English weekday name of the date.

Parameters

ParameterTypeDescription
datedate or date and timethe value to inspect

Examples

day of week(date("2026-07-24"))
Friday Try it ↑

Edge cases and null handling

day of week(date and time("2026-07-24T23:30:00"))
Friday Try it ↑

Works on date and time values too.

day of week("2026-07-24")
null Try it ↑

A string is not a date; wrap it in date().

date("2026-07-24").weekday
5 Try it ↑

The numeric alternative: 1 = Monday.

Part of FEEL date and time functions: date arithmetic, the two kinds of duration, time zones, and every temporal function side by side.

Related functions

day of year · month of year

Defined by the OMG DMN 1.6 specification, chapter 10.3.4 (built-in functions).