# DayOfWeekAsString

Returns the full day of the week name of a date object. Note that the behavior of this function is not localized, as Sunday is always considered to be the first day of the week.

## Method Signature

```
DayOfWeekAsString(date=[any], timezone=[string], locale=[string])
```

### Arguments

| Argument   | Type     | Required | Description                                                   | Default |
| ---------- | -------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- |
| `date`     | `any`    | `false`  | The numeric integer to extract the day of week or month from. |         |
| `timezone` | `string` | `false`  |                                                               |         |
| `locale`   | `string` | `false`  |                                                               |         |

## Examples

## Related

* [createDate](/boxlang-framework/modularity/compat-cfml/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/createdate.md)
* [DateCompare](/boxlang-framework/modularity/compat-cfml/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/datecompare.md)
* [DateFormat](/boxlang-framework/modularity/compat-cfml/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/dateformat.md)
* [DateTimeFormat](/boxlang-framework/modularity/compat-cfml/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/datetimeformat.md)
* [DayOfWeekShortAsString](/boxlang-framework/modularity/compat-cfml/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/dayofweekshortasstring.md)
* [GetHTTPTimestring](broken://pages/12EdXbOXMzAtSTemXnbo)
* [LSDateFormat](/boxlang-framework/modularity/compat-cfml/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/lsdateformat.md)
* [LSDateTimeFormat](/boxlang-framework/modularity/compat-cfml/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/lsdatetimeformat.md)
* [LSDayOfWeek](/boxlang-framework/modularity/compat-cfml/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/lsdayofweek.md)
* [LSIsDate](/boxlang-framework/modularity/compat-cfml/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/lsisdate.md)
* [LSParseDateTime](/boxlang-framework/modularity/compat-cfml/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/lsparsedatetime.md)
* [LSTimeFormat](/boxlang-framework/modularity/compat-cfml/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/lstimeformat.md)
* [LSWeek](/boxlang-framework/modularity/compat-cfml/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/lsweek.md)
* [MonthAsString](/boxlang-framework/modularity/compat-cfml/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/monthasstring.md)
* [MonthShortAsString](/boxlang-framework/modularity/compat-cfml/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/monthshortasstring.md)
* [ParseDateTime](/boxlang-framework/modularity/compat-cfml/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/parsedatetime.md)
* [TimeFormat](/boxlang-framework/modularity/compat-cfml/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/timeformat.md)
* [ToLegacyDate](/boxlang-framework/modularity/compat-cfml/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/tolegacydate.md)


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