# Display Current Day of Week **URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/display-current-day-of-week/15683 **Category:** Ask for Help **Created:** [September 12, 2020, 9:50am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/display-current-day-of-week/15683 "2020-09-12T09:50:10Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 5
### Author: ![kyleheney](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/kyleheney/32/41173_2.png) [@kyleheney](https://community.glideapps.com/u/kyleheney) #### Post date: [September 12, 2020, 10:28am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/display-current-day-of-week/15683/5 "2020-09-12T10:28:02Z")
Yes, if you want the date to change without any input from the user, then you’ll need background refresh or else the date (and app) will only update when something in the sheet changes. See my post below for how to build a refresh button into the app for this very purpose. It would only show for the first user each day (until the day matches “today” ). > [@Prevent bookings 6 months or more away (in the editor, not the sheet)](https://community.glideapps.com/t/prevent-bookings-6-months-or-more-away-in-the-editor-not-the-sheet/15213/8): > > Genius! Works like a charm. Appreciate your help on this! I may build in my manual refresh method into it to help prevent any issues. It’s a way to add a forced refresh for Today calcs for non-Pro apps. It involves using a Single Value column of a Today calc (in the sheet) to check if that column is “today” in the Editor. If it’s not, it shows a refresh button that is tied to an increment action (basically just to force a value to the sheet so it gets refreshed). If that helps anyone, there you… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.glideapps.com/t/display-current-day-of-week/15683)._