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weekday

weekday​

Description​

Syntax​

INT WEEKDAY (DATETIME date)

The WEEKDAY function returns the index value of the working day of the date, that is, 0 on Monday, 1 on Tuesday, and 6 on Sunday.

The parameter is Date or Datetime type

Notice the difference between WEEKDAY and DAYOFWEEK:

          +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
| Sun | Mon | Tues| Wed | Thur| Fri | Sat |
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
weekday | 6 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
dayofweek | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+

example​

mysql> select weekday('2019-06-25');
+--------------------------------+
| weekday('2019-06-25 00:00:00') |
+--------------------------------+
| 1 |
+--------------------------------+

mysql> select weekday(cast(20190625 as date));
+---------------------------------+
| weekday(CAST(20190625 AS DATE)) |
+---------------------------------+
| 1 |
+---------------------------------+

keywords​

WEEKDAY