WEEKDAY Function

From a SAS date value, returns an integer that corresponds to the day of the week.

Category:

Date and Time

Syntax

WEEKDAY(date)

specifies a SAS expression that represents a SAS date value.

The WEEKDAY function produces an integer that represents the day of the week, where 1=Sunday, 2=Monday, ..., 7=Saturday.

The following SAS statements produce this result.

SAS Statement	Result
x=weekday('16mar97'd); put x;	1