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How do I get day of the week using os.date() ?

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I want special things to happen in my game during a certain day of the week, I've researched a bit and I found command os.date() which creates a table of information about current time, but... I don't really know how to read from arrays/tables. If I run this command

for k, v in pairs(os.date("*t")) do print(k .. ": " .. v) end

i get in output:

-- x is a number of hrs, mins, secs...

hour: x
min: x
wday: x
day: x
month: x
year: x
sec: x
yday: x

Now I want to get number of "wday", and if it's for an example 2, script would print "It's Monday!" So this is basically a question about how to read tables...

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Its quite simple. Lets say you wanted to set a IntValue to the day of the week you would do something like this!

local tab = os.date("*t") -- Getting the array.
local value = Instance.new("IntValue",workspace) -- Making the value and parenting it.
value.Name = "DayOfWeek" -- Naming the value
value.Value = tab.wday -- Changing the value
print(value.Value) -- Make sure it works!
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Thank you so much, I actually want to use !*t instead of *t

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