How do I reference the day of the week as an integer?

[pootwa...@gmail.com]

Currently time.Weekday is declared as follows:

// A Weekday specifies a day of the week (Sunday = 0, ...).

type Weekday int

const (

Sunday Weekday = iota

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

)

And, unfortunately, the time.Weekday() function returns a string (Name of the day) rather than an integer.

[Caleb Spare]

No, t.Weekday() returns a time.Weekday, not a string. You can turn it
into an int with an int conversion: int(yourweekday).

You may be thinking it's a string because if how it's being formatted
when you inspect it (because a time.Weekday has a String method
defined on it).

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[Sean Gao]

Have you tried something like:
    fmt.Printf("%d", time.Weekday(0))

Or:
    int(time.Weekday(5))

Regards,
Sean

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[Bryan Jarvis]

Thanks, Caleb!  That was the key, casting it as an integer.

So:
t := time.Now()
    d1 := int(t.Weekday())
returns the integer I am looking for!