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Updated on 2025-04-11

VBS Tutorial: Functions-WeekDayName Function

WeekDayName function

Returns a string representing a specified day of the week.

WeekdayName(weekday, abbreviate, firstdayofweek)

parameter

weekday

Required option. The numerical definition of a day of the week. The numerical definition of each day depends onfirstdayofweekParameter settings.

Abbreviate

Optional. Boolean value, indicating whether the abbreviation represents the name of each day of the week. If omitted, the default value isFalse, that is, the name of each day of the week is not abbreviated.

Firstdayofweek

Optional. Specifies the value of the first day of the week. For values, see the Settings section.

set up

The firstdayofweek parameter has the following values:

constant value describe
vbUseSystem 0 Use the Regional Language Support (NLS) API settings.
vbSunday 1 Sunday (default)
vbMonday 2 Monday
vbTuesday 3 Tuesday
vbWednesday 4 Wednesday
vbThursday 5 Thursday
vbFriday 6 Friday
vbSaturday 7 Saturday

illustrate

The following example usesWeekDayNameThe function returns the specified day:

Dim MyDateMyDate = WeekDayName(6, True)  'MyDate Include Fri