You never said anything was wrong, you just asked *if* anything was wrong and I told you that you at least need to secure it by running it through the cleaner. What is wrong?
And once you've assigned it ($day = ....), then you can just use that variable $day.
This is actually the article I meant to link you to, sorry -
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...hlight=cleaner