Determines the day of the week, in a date, as a string function.

The day of the week, as a string in the current locale, that corresponds to day_of_week.

Date and time functions, String functions

DayOfWeekAsString(day_of_week)

Day, DayOfWeek, DayOfYear, DaysInMonth, DaysInYear, FirstDayOfMonth

ColdFusion MX 7: Changed behavior. The returned string is now in the language of the current locale.

The following example shows the use of the DayOfWeekAsString function. It is the action page for a form that submits year, month, and day fields.

<h3>DayOfWeekAsString Example</h3>
<cfif IsDefined("FORM.year")>
More information about your date:
<cfset yourDate = CreateDate(FORM.year, FORM.month, FORM.day)>

<cfoutput>
<p>Your date, #DateFormat(yourDate)#.
<br>It is #DayofWeekAsString(DayOfWeek(yourDate))#, day
    #DayOfWeek(yourDate)# in the week.
<br>This is day #Day(YourDate)# in the month of 
#MonthAsString(Month(yourDate))#, which has
     #DaysInMonth(yourDate)# days.
<br>We are in week #Week(yourDate)# of #Year(YourDate)# (day 
#DayofYear(yourDate)#
of #DaysinYear(yourDate)#). 
<br><cfif IsLeapYear(Year(yourDate))>This is a leap year
   <cfelse>This is not a leap year</cfif>
</cfoutput>
</cfif>