This is a documentation subpage for Template:WEEKDAYNAME. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template returns the name of the weekday whose ISO week date day number is in parameter. Alternatively, the English weekday name or abbreviation (with any letter case) can be given.

{{WEEKDAYNAME|day}}

• The day value can be any numeric expression and is interpreted modulo 7 (extra leading zeroes and decimals are ignored).

{{WEEKDAYNAME|MONDAY}} returns Monday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|TUESDAY}} returns Tuesday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|WEDNESDAY}} returns Wednesday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|THURSDAY}} returns Thursday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|FRIDAY}} returns Friday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|SATURDAY}} returns Saturday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|SUNDAY}} returns Sunday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|mon}} returns Monday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|tue}} returns Tuesday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|wed}} returns Wednesday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|thu}} returns Thursday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|fri}} returns Friday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|sat}} returns Saturday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|sun}} returns Sunday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|0}} returns Sunday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|1}} returns Monday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|2}} returns Tuesday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|3}} returns Wednesday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|4}} returns Thursday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|5}} returns Friday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|6}} returns Saturday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|7}} returns Sunday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|00}} returns Sunday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|01}} returns Monday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|02}} returns Tuesday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|03}} returns Wednesday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|04}} returns Thursday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|05}} returns Friday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|06}} returns Saturday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|07}} returns Sunday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|-701}} returns Saturday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|-700}} returns Sunday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|-699}} returns Monday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|-7}} returns Sunday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|-6}} returns Monday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|-5}} returns Tuesday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|-4}} returns Wednesday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|-3}} returns Thursday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|-2}} returns Friday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|-1}} returns Saturday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|-0.0001}} returns Saturday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|0.0001}} returns Sunday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|0.9999}} returns Sunday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|7}} returns Sunday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|8}} returns Monday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|9}} returns Tuesday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|10}} returns Wednesday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|13}} returns Saturday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|14}} returns Sunday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|15}} returns Monday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|700}} returns Sunday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|701}} returns Monday

{{WEEKDAYNAME|707}} returns Sunday

Type	Adjustable	Current	Last	Next
Date and time	{{time}}	{{Currentdate}} (MDY) {{Plain now}} (DMY) {{Now}} (DMY in a complete sentence) {{Simple now}}
Date only	{{Dateonly}} {{Datedow}} (Has the day of the week)	{{Date}} (Chose format) {{TODAY}} (DMY)	{{Yesterday}} {{Day-1}}	{{Tomorrow}} {{Day+1}}
Month and year only		{{Monthyear}} {{DATE}} (prefixed by date=)	{{Monthyear-1}} {{Last month}}	{{Monthyear+1}} {{Next month}}
Time only	{{Timeonly}} (Adjustable to 12 h format)	{{CURRENTTIME}} (24 h format)
Banners		{{Right now}} (Blue with time and number of Wikipedia articles)
Timestamp		{{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} (Format YYYYMMDDhhmmss)

Unit of time	Adjustable	Current	Last	Next
Second		{{CURRENTSECOND}}
Minute		{{CURRENTMINUTE}}
Hour		{{CURRENTHOUR}}
Week		{{CURRENTWEEK}} {{CURRENTWEEKOFMONTH}}
Day of Week	{{DAYOFWEEK}}	{{CURRENTDAYNAME}} {{CURRENTDAYNAMEABBREV}} {{CURRENTWEEKDAY}} (1–7, ISO) {{CURRENTDOW}} (0–6)
Month	{{MONTHNAME}} {{MONTHABBREV}} {{MONTHNUMBER}} {{MONTH}} (zero padded)	{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} {{CURRENTMONTH1}} {{CURRENTMONTHDAYS}}	{{LASTMONTHNAME}} {{Last month (short)}}	{{NEXTMONTHNAME}} {{Next month (short)}}
Day of Month		{{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTDAY2}} (zero padded)
Year		{{CURRENTYEAR}} {{CURRENTYEARCC}} {{CURRENTYEARYY}} {{CURRENTISOYEAR}}	{{LASTYEAR}}	{{NEXTYEAR}}
Day of Year		{{CURRENTDAYOFYEAR}}
Decade	{{DECADE}}	{{CURRENTDECADE}}
Century	{{Century}}	{{CURRENTCENTURY}}
Millenium	{{MILLENNIUM}}

• mw:Special:MyLanguage/time permits a custom time specifier string, similar to the C date and time functions

• {{Calendar}}
• {{Calendar clock with Wikipedia stats}}
• {{Clock}}
• {{Digital clock}}
• {{Digital clock and date}}
• {{Infobox calendar date today}}

• Category:Time, date and calendar templates
• Category:Date-computing templates
• Category:Date-computing templates based on current time
• Category:ISO date templates
• Category:Calendar templates