weekday (MATLAB Functions)

Day of the week

Syntax

```
[N,S] = weekday(D)
```

Description

[N,S] = weekday(D) returns the day of the week in numeric (N) and string (S) form for each element of a serial date number array or date string. The days of the week are assigned these numbers and abbreviations:

N
S
N
S

1
Sun
5
Thu

2
Mon
6
Fri

3
Tue
7
Sat

4
Wed

N	S	N	S
`1`	`Sun`	`5`	`Thu`
`2`	`Mon`	`6`	`Fri`
`3`	`Tue`	`7`	`Sat`
`4`	`Wed`

Examples

Either

```
[n,s] = weekday(728647) 
```

```
[n,s] = weekday('19-Dec-1994')
```

returns n = 2 and s = Mon.

See Also

datenum, datevec, eomday

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