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Challenge 239: What Day Is It?

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--description--

Given a Unix timestamp in milliseconds, return the day of the week.

Valid return days are:

  • "Sunday"
  • "Monday"
  • "Tuesday"
  • "Wednesday"
  • "Thursday"
  • "Friday"
  • "Saturday"

Be sure to ignore time zones.

--hints--

getDayOfWeek(1775492249000) should return "Monday".

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assert.equal(getDayOfWeek(1775492249000), "Monday");

getDayOfWeek(1766246400000) should return "Saturday".

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assert.equal(getDayOfWeek(1766246400000), "Saturday");

getDayOfWeek(33791256000000) should return "Tuesday".

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assert.equal(getDayOfWeek(33791256000000), "Tuesday");

getDayOfWeek(1773576000000) should return "Sunday".

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assert.equal(getDayOfWeek(1773576000000), "Sunday");

getDayOfWeek(0) should return "Thursday".

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assert.equal(getDayOfWeek(0), "Thursday");

--seed--

--seed-contents--

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function getDayOfWeek(timestamp) {

  return timestamp;
}

--solutions--

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function getDayOfWeek(timestamp) {
  return new Date(timestamp).toLocaleDateString("en-US", { weekday: "long", timeZone: "UTC" });
}