# How to get the day of the current date?

**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-get-the-day-of-the-current-date/63626
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [July 7, 2023, 10:59am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-get-the-day-of-the-current-date/63626 "2023-07-07T10:59:23Z")
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### Author: ![Pierre\_de\_Man](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/pierre_de_man/32/34925_2.png) [@Pierre\_de\_Man](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Pierre_de_Man)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2023, 10:59am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-get-the-day-of-the-current-date/63626/1 "2023-07-07T10:59:23Z")

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Hi fellow Gliders,  
I would like to know, how to get the day from the current date.  
I know that in the Math column if you put Day(Date) you will get the number of the day of the month.  
For example, 6-7-2023 will give me the 6  
But I would like to have the day, so Thursday.  
Many thanks for your help 🙂

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### Author: ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2023, 11:05am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-get-the-day-of-the-current-date/63626/2 "2023-07-07T11:05:44Z")

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For your use case, where (I believe) you are the only user of your App, I would recommend the [Format Date](https://www.glideapps.com/plugins/format-date) column.

 ![CleanShot 2023-07-07 at 19.05.00@2x](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/c/e/cedb094361666372f629c8a91b75868b548c1a2b.png)

_Note that I wouldn’t normally recommend this for a multi-user App, because there are known issues with the Luxon library. But in your case, it should be fine._

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### Author: ![Pierre\_de\_Man](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/pierre_de_man/32/34925_2.png) [@Pierre\_de\_Man](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Pierre_de_Man)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2023, 2:35pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-get-the-day-of-the-current-date/63626/3 "2023-07-07T14:35:35Z")

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Thanks 🙂  
I was looking in the wrong place  
Indeed, the app will be for one user, so this is perfect.

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### Author: ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/system/32/53398_2.png) [@system](https://community.glideapps.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2023, 2:35pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-get-the-day-of-the-current-date/63626/4 "2023-07-08T14:35:40Z")

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