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getUTCDay Method

Visual Studio 2010

Returns the day of the week value in a Date object using Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

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function getUTCDay() : Number

To get the day of the week using local time, use the getDate method.

The value returned by the getUTCDay method is an integer between 0 and 6 representing the day of the week and corresponds to a day of the week as follows:

Value

Day of the Week

0

Sunday

1

Monday

2

Tuesday

3

Wednesday

4

Thursday

5

Friday

6

Saturday

The following example illustrates the use of the getUTCDay method.

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function DateDemo(){
   var d, day, x, s = "Today is ";
   var x = new Array("Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday");
   x = x.concat("Wednesday","Thursday", "Friday");
   x = x.concat("Saturday");
   d = new Date();
   day = d.getUTCDay();
   return(s += x[day] + " in UTC");
}
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