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getUTCDay() Method

This method returns the UTC day of the week of a Date object.

Syntax

dateVar.getUTCDay()

Returns

The UTC day of the week of dateVar as a number from 0 to 6.

Usage

This method returns the UTC day of the week of dateVar as a number from 0 to 6. Sunday is 0, and Saturday is 6.

Example

This function displays the day of the week of May 1, 2001, both locally and in universal time.

function Button2_Click ()
{
   var localDay;
   var UTCDay;
   var MayDay = new Date("May 1, 2001 13:30:35");
   var weekDay = new Array("Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday",
      "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday");

   for (var i = 0; i <= MayDay.getDay();i++)
      localDay = weekDay[i];
   var msgtext = "May 1, 2001, 1:30 PM falls on " + localDay;

   for (var j = 0; j <= MayDay.getUTCDay(); j++)
      UTCDay = weekDay[j];
   msgtext = msgtext + " locally, \nand on " + UTCDay + " GMT.";

   TheApplication().RaiseErrorText(msgtext);
}

See Also

getDay() Method