# Excluding weekends

**URL:** <https://community.make.com/t/excluding-weekends/7661>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** date-time-functions, functions\
**Created:** [February 3, 2023, 7:10pm UTC](https://community.make.com/t/excluding-weekends/7661 "2023-02-03T19:10:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![vstnv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ce7236/32.png) [@vstnv](https://community.make.com/u/vstnv)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2023, 7:10pm UTC](https://community.make.com/t/excluding-weekends/7661/1 "2023-02-03T19:10:21Z")

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Hey all! Happy Friday. I’m working on Monday automation and need your help - need to exclude weekends. You can see in the screenshot that we’re picking up a day and adding a duration which results a next due date for the following item. Weekends have to be excluded though… Any suggestions?

 ![Screenshot 2023-02-03 at 20.09.51](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/make/original/2X/a/a50c3f40079a8f0afda5af240c0fd8ce5e6ee6f9.png)

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**Author:** ![Wemakefuture](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.make.com/wemakefuture/32/103_2.png) [@Wemakefuture](https://community.make.com/u/Wemakefuture)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2023, 10:21pm UTC](https://community.make.com/t/excluding-weekends/7661/2 "2023-02-03T22:21:36Z")

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Hi. You can try do a rule using the token “dddd” in the datetime format. It will return the weekday name (saturday, sunday). So this way you can exclude them.

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Thanks, Helio!  
Wemakefuture  
If you have questions reach out 😉

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**Author:** ![Make\_Bot](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.make.com/make_bot/32/14661_2.png) [@Make\_Bot](https://community.make.com/u/Make_Bot)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 3:31pm UTC](https://community.make.com/t/excluding-weekends/7661/3 "2023-09-07T15:31:34Z")

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