---
title: boundaries.thursday() function
description: >
  `boundaries.thursday()` returns a record with `start` and `stop` boundary timestamps for last Thursday.
menu:
  flux_v0_ref:
    name: boundaries.thursday
    parent: experimental/date/boundaries
    identifier: experimental/date/boundaries/thursday
weight: 301
flux/v0/tags: [date/time]
introduced: 0.177.1
---

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

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

##### Function type signature

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

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## Examples

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

### Return start and stop timestamps of last Thursday

```js
import "experimental/date/boundaries"

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

boundaries.thursday()// Returns {start: 2021-12-23T08:00:00Z, stop:2021-12-24T08:00:00Z }


```


### Query data collected last Thursday

```js
import "experimental/date/boundaries"

day = boundaries.thursday()

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

```