freecodecamp--freecodecamp/curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/daily-coding-challenges-python/69b559d2903b9e4afe9075f9.md

id, title, challengeType, dashedName

id	title	challengeType	dashedName
69b559d2903b9e4afe9075f9	Challenge 239: What Day Is It?	29	challenge-239

--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--

get_day_of_week(1775492249000) should return "Monday".

({test: () => { runPython(`
from unittest import TestCase
TestCase().assertEqual(get_day_of_week(1775492249000), "Monday")`)
}})

get_day_of_week(1766246400000) should return "Saturday".

({test: () => { runPython(`
from unittest import TestCase
TestCase().assertEqual(get_day_of_week(1766246400000), "Saturday")`)
}})

get_day_of_week(33791256000000) should return "Tuesday".

({test: () => { runPython(`
from unittest import TestCase
TestCase().assertEqual(get_day_of_week(33791256000000), "Tuesday")`)
}})

get_day_of_week(1773576000000) should return "Sunday".

({test: () => { runPython(`
from unittest import TestCase
TestCase().assertEqual(get_day_of_week(1773576000000), "Sunday")`)
}})

get_day_of_week(0) should return "Thursday".

({test: () => { runPython(`
from unittest import TestCase
TestCase().assertEqual(get_day_of_week(0), "Thursday")`)
}})

--seed--

--seed-contents--

def get_day_of_week(timestamp):

    return timestamp

--solutions--

from datetime import datetime, timezone

def get_day_of_week(timestamp):
    days = ["Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday", "Sunday"]
    dt = datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp / 1000, tz=timezone.utc)
    return days[dt.weekday()]