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Date.prototype.getUTCDay()

The getUTCDay() method of Date instances returns the day of the week for this date according to universal time, where 0 represents Sunday.

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Syntax

js
getUTCDay()

Parameters

None.

Return value

An integer corresponding to the day of the week for the given date according to universal time: 0 for Sunday, 1 for Monday, 2 for Tuesday, and so on. Returns NaN if the date is invalid.

Examples

Using getUTCDay()

The following example assigns the weekday portion of the current date to the variable weekday.

js
const today = new Date();
const weekday = today.getUTCDay();

Specifications

Browser compatibility

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Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android Deno Node.js
getUTCDay 1 12 1 4 1 18 4 10.1 1 1.0 4.4 1.0 0.10.0

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/getUTCDay