How to extract day from date in watson conversation

Question

How to extract day from date in watson conversation. The language is French.
I would like if $day=="Samedi" (in English => Saturday) or $day=="Dimanche" (in English => Sunday), the respond is "We do not work Saturday and Sunday"

Answer 1

Use the reformatDateTime('u') to return the day of the week index . Then you can check for day 6 or 7. That would be even language-independent. The documentation for SimpleDateFormat indicates that the parameter should be F , not u to retrieve the index. Thus, you may want to experiment.