---
title: boundaries.saturday() function
description: >
  `boundaries.saturday()` returns a record with `start` and `stop` boundary timestamps for last Saturday.
menu:
  flux_v0_ref:
    name: boundaries.saturday
    parent: date/boundaries
    identifier: date/boundaries/saturday
weight: 201
flux/v0/tags: [date/time]
deprecated: 0.177.1
---

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`boundaries.saturday()` returns a record with `start` and `stop` boundary timestamps for last Saturday.

Last Saturday is relative to `now()`. If today is Saturday, the function returns boundaries for the previous Saturday.

##### Function type signature

```js
() => {stop: time, start: time}
```

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## Examples

- [Return start and stop timestamps of last Saturday](#return-start-and-stop-timestamps-of-last-saturday)
- [Query data collected last Saturday](#query-data-collected-last-saturday)

### Return start and stop timestamps of last Saturday

```js
import "date/boundaries"

option location = timezone.fixed(offset: -8h)
option now = () => 2021-12-30T00:40:44Z

boundaries.saturday()// Returns {start: 2022-12-25T08:00:00Z, stop:2022-12-26T08:00:00Z }


```


### Query data collected last Saturday

```js
import "date/boundaries"

day = boundaries.saturday()

from(bucket: "example-bucket")
    |> range(start: day.start, stop: day.stop)

```