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with the day of the week for a date-time t.

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with This function returns the day of the week for a date-time t, in a certain time_zone, and language of any given timestamp in text form.


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dayOfTheWeekToString(number ttimestamp, timeZone time_zone, language) #Output: Text


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dayOfTheWeekToString({issue.dueDate}, LOCAL, USER_LANG)


This example returns the day of the week as text.

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If the due date was set to March 25th, 2020 23:15 and the user's Jira language was set to English, the output would be Friday.




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timestamp

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The parameter must be valid timestamp. Usually this value is retrieved from a field (e.g. due date, created date).
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The time zone used for the calculation. 

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The language used for the calculation.



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Work days might depend on the time zone - it might be Sunday on the west coast of the US while at the same time it's already Monday in Australia. 

If you need the day of the week as a number, please see dayOfTheWeek().



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%{getMatchingValue(dayOfTheWeek({issue.created}, RUN_AS_LOCAL), [1,2,3,4,5,6,7],["Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday", "Sunday"])}

Not with Jira Expression, but we can achieve it with our Parser Expressions.




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Returns the day of the week of any given timestamp in text form.

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