Day of the week into a string variable

[Temmy 25]

Please help me implement this.
After successfully closing my trade using the close trade block, I want to save the current day of the week into a string variable and show it in the journal using log message block.

The difficulty for me is how to get the day of the week.
Is there a way to know what day of the week is it and save that as a string variable?

[Temmy 25]

@Temmy-25

Or any idea on how to convert UNIX time to day of week?

[jstap]

If you use this DayOfWeek(); you will get the number, 0=Sunday. Then write this into custom code.
if (DayOfWeek()==0) Day_variable="Sunday";
else if (DayOfWeek()==1) Day_variable="Monday";
else if (DayOfWeek()==2) Day_variable="Tuesday";
Do this for all days.

[Temmy 25]

@jstap Thank you
I will try this

[jstap]

I got it wrong day constant, I meant variable.

[Temmy 25]

@jstap
Please how do I save this into a variable or is it automatic and the name of the variable must be Day_variable?

Sorry, I have no programming experience

[jstap]

Like that, the day variable will always have the day it is, so as you have it should print the name in a log message.

[Temmy 25]

@jstap Thank you. It works

[Temmy 25]

@jstap
Please I have another issue with this
The custom code runs as if it is directly under on Tick
At the beginning of the day, it logs the week day variable
But I only want it to log the week day variable after a particular profit is reach for the day

I open trades for the day from 10am
The day of the week logs at the first tick of the day, 1 am

[jstap]

I am not sure what you're asking, under the once a day block it will only run once at that time.

[Temmy 25]

@jstap
I want it to run once a day only after the check profit block is true
But instead it runs at the beginning of each day when the check profit block isn't yet true

[Temmy 25]

I figured what the problem is
The block is running before another block that resets my group number
Thanks for your help