Service Manager

Day

Returns the UTC date and time interval of the entire day that is the number of days specified earlier than or later than the specified date and time.

Syntax

Day(numDays, baseDateTime, timeZone)

Enabled For

For a description of the business object categories, see Notes on "Enabled For".

Business Object Category	Yes/No
Business Rules: Before-Save Rules	Yes
Business Rules: Calculation Rules (After Save, with or without Also Recalculate on Load)	Yes
Business Rules: Calculation Rules (Before Save or Always, without Also Recalculate On Load)	Yes
Business Rules: Calculation Rules (Before Save or Always, with Recalculate On Load)	Yes
Business Rules: Editing Rules	Yes
Business Rules: Initialization Rules	Yes
Business Rules: Read Only Rules	Yes
Business Rules: Required Rules	Yes
Business Rules: Validation Rules	Yes
Client Expressions	Yes
Object Permissions	Yes
Services	Yes
LDAP	Yes
Mobile	Yes
Quick Actions (except UI Quick Actions)	Yes
UI Quick Actions	Yes
Reports	Yes
Search/Dashboard without field references	Yes
Search/Dashboard with field references	Yes

Parameters

numDays	(Optional) The number of days before or after the date and time specified by the baseDateTime parameter. If not specified or 0, uses the interval containing the date and time specified by the baseDateTime parameter. Can be either a positive integer, to indicate days after the default interval, or a negative integer, to indicate days before the default interval.
baseDateTime	(Optional) The base date for the function. If not specified, uses the default date which is the current date and time.
timeZone	(Optional) The time zone, in IANA format.

Returns Value

DateTime interval in UTC time.

Example

$(Day(4))

If today is April 10, 2014, this function returns the DateTime interval of the entire local day of April 14, 2014 (4 days after April 10, 2014).

 

$(Day(-4))

If today is April 10, 2014, this function returns the DateTime interval of the entire local day of April 6, 2014.

 

$(Day(10, mydate))

If the value of the mydate parameter is anytime during April 10, 2014, this function returns the DateTime interval of the entire local day of April 20, 2014.

$(Day(-4, Now(), "Africa/Cairo"))

If today is April 10, 2014, this function returns the DateTime interval of the entire local day of April 6, 2014 in the Africa/Cairo time zone.