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Weekdayfunction
Gets the number of day of the week from a Date Serial
Syntax
Declare Function Weekday ( ByVal serial As Double , ByVal firstdayofweek As Long = fbusesystem ) As LongParameters
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
date_serial | the date | |
firstdayofweek | the first day of the week |
Return value
Returns the week day number from a variable containing a date in Date Serial format.
Description
The week day values must be in the range 1-7, its meaning depends on the
firstdayofweek parameterfirstdayofweek is optional.| value | first day of week | constant |
| omitted | sunday | |
| 0 | local settings | fbUseSystem |
| 1 | sunday | fbSunday |
| 2 | monday | fbMonday |
| 3 | tuesday | fbTuesday |
| 4 | wednesday | fbWednesday |
| 5 | thursday | fbThursday |
| 6 | friday | fbFriday |
| 7 | saturday | fbSaturday |
vbcompat.bi is included.Remarks
Usage
#include "vbcompat.bi"
result = Weekday( date_serial [, firstdayofweek ] )
Differences from QB
- Did not exist in QB. This function appeared in PDS and VBDOS
See also
Example
#include "vbcompat.bi"
Dim a As Double = DateSerial (2005, 11, 28) + TimeSerial(7, 30, 50)
Print Format(a, "yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss "); Weekday(a)
Reference
- Documented in KeyPgWeekday.html