The getUTCDay() method of Date instances returns the day of the week for this date according to universal time, where 0 represents Sunday.
Syntax
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.
const today = new Date();
const weekday = today.getUTCDay();