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Suggesting a system variable for the current day of the week in Zapier

  • July 23, 2025
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WAZEN

This solution has been provided to run Zaps only during business hours:

 

The issue is that I still need to use a formatting step to get my filter ready for this which could be tiresome if I have a series of Zaps I need to set this up for.

Would it instead be possible to just set up the current Day of the Week as a System variable?

This would mean I simply add into my filter to be to continue if {{current_day_of_week}} exactly matches Monday, or Tuesday, or Wednesday, or Thursday, or Friday.

Hell, I could also do it the other way to make it so that it continues if {{current_day_of_week}} does not exactly match Saturday or Sunday.

If instead of getting the days as texts and instead numbered Monday - Sunday as 1 - 7, we could instead simply set it to continue only if {{current_day_of_week}} is less than 6.

 

Either of theses would be an amazing feature which would provide tons of versatility while removing the need to have repeated formatting steps to convert the current date into a day of the week.

 

Thank you. Anybody else keen on this feature?

Best answer by Troy Tessalone

Hi ​@WAZEN 

Best to submit feedback and feature requests via a ticket to Zapier Support to be properly logged for consideration: https://zapier.com/app/get-help

 

In the meantime, assume Zapier won’t provide the desired system variable to use, and thus use the know workaround of a Formatter step.

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  • July 23, 2025

Hi ​@WAZEN 

Best to submit feedback and feature requests via a ticket to Zapier Support to be properly logged for consideration: https://zapier.com/app/get-help

 

In the meantime, assume Zapier won’t provide the desired system variable to use, and thus use the know workaround of a Formatter step.