# Long String Day Of Week

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/long-string-day-of-week/9075>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [September 18, 2014, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/long-string-day-of-week/9075 "2014-09-18T18:13:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Automator59](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@Automator59](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Automator59)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/long-string-day-of-week/9075/1 "2014-09-18T18:13:05Z")

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I would like to get the long string (Monday instead of Mon) from the day of the week. Using the DateFormat function, it only returns the short string with the “E” formatting.

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**Author:** ![Automator59](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@Automator59](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Automator59)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/long-string-day-of-week/9075/2 "2014-09-18T18:30:27Z")

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Figured it out, used “EEEE”