rolfl, I think of day of the week as a concept more tied to subjective experience than the date/timestamp. Why would one want to know what day of the week it was, other than to relate it to something locally-relevant, like whether the author was likely at work? If you see a raw timestamp with a 'Z' at the end, you're more likely to make the necessary conversion. If you see a timestamp that says "Mon 2015-01-26 09:22:17Z," you might just think "oh, Monday morning -> work," and stop there, less likely to consider the fact that the author is in, say US PST and was hacking at 2 am on a Sunday. —
Isaac Moses 4 hours ago