Extract weekdays and month names from timestamp

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@LaurenBacall

...2. I'm trying to set a limit to the number of exported $loop entries. Using the format: $loop(%fieldname%,num) as stated in the help documents doesn't appear to work, ...

See also ...
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I do not think, that the second parameter 'num' within the function '$loop(%fieldname%,num)' can control the number of loops.
The documention description may be incorrect.

I understand the second parameter as a boolean switch, which allows only two values 0 or 1.
The documention description may be incorrect.

$loop(%fieldname%,0) ...
... allows each item from the item list to be processed.

$loop(%fieldname%,1) ...
... allows only the first item of ambiguous items from the item list to be processed.
... restricts the focus to the first item of a group of items with the same value.

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