topic Long Day Names in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Long-Day-Names/m-p/308422#M1198441 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>I'm having trouble getting the long day names function to work. I've set long day names as follows:</P><P></P><P class="p1"><B>SET</B> LongDayNames='Monday;Tuesday;Wednesday;Thursday;Friday;Saturday;Sunday';</P><P class="p1">Now I'm trying to query today using the following expression:</P><P class="p1">=weekday(now())</P><P class="p1">However this returns the short day name, not the long day name.</P><P class="p1">Any help would be appreciated.</P><P class="p1"></P><P class="p1">Matt</P><BR /><BR /> <P class="p1"></P><P class="p1"></P><P class="p1"></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:03:55 GMT 2011-02-24T13:03:55Z Long Day Names https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Long-Day-Names/m-p/308422#M1198441 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>I'm having trouble getting the long day names function to work. I've set long day names as follows:</P><P></P><P class="p1"><B>SET</B> LongDayNames='Monday;Tuesday;Wednesday;Thursday;Friday;Saturday;Sunday';</P><P class="p1">Now I'm trying to query today using the following expression:</P><P class="p1">=weekday(now())</P><P class="p1">However this returns the short day name, not the long day name.</P><P class="p1">Any help would be appreciated.</P><P class="p1"></P><P class="p1">Matt</P><BR /><BR /> <P class="p1"></P><P class="p1"></P><P class="p1"></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:03:55 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Long-Day-Names/m-p/308422#M1198441 2011-02-24T13:03:55Z Long Day Names https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Long-Day-Names/m-p/308423#M1198442 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi</P><P></P><P>Try</P><P>=date(now(),'WWWW)</P><P></P><P></P><P></P><P>Regards</P><P>Anders</P><P></P><BR /><BR /> <BR /><BR /></BODY></HTML> Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:20:31 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Long-Day-Names/m-p/308423#M1198442 2011-02-24T13:20:31Z Long Day Names https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Long-Day-Names/m-p/308424#M1198443 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Perfect!</P><P>Thanks for the help.</P><P>Matt</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:51:08 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Long-Day-Names/m-p/308424#M1198443 2011-02-24T13:51:08Z