WeekdayNamefunction

Gets the name of a week day from its integral representation

Date and Time Functionsfunctiondocumented

Syntax

Declare Function WeekdayName ( ByVal weekday As Long, ByVal abbreviate As Long = 0, ByVal firstdayofweek As Long = fbUseSystem ) As String

Parameters

Name		Description
`weekday`		the number of the day of the week
`abbreviate`		flag to indicate that name should be abbreviated
`firstdayofweek`		first day of the week

Return value

Returns the local operating system language day of week name from the weekday value 1 to 7.

Description

How weekday is interpreted depends on the firstdayofweek parameter.

If abbreviate is true, a 3 letter abbreviation is returned, if false or omitted, the whole name is returned.

firstdayofweek is an optional parameter specified as follows:

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

The compiler will not recognize this function unless vbcompat.bi or datetime.bi is included.

Remarks

Usage



#include "vbcompat.bi"

result = WeekdayName( weekday [, abbreviate [, firstdayofweek ] ] )

Differences from QB

Did not exist in QB. This function appeared in Visual Basic.

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 "); WeekdayName(Weekday(a))

Reference

Documented in KeyPgWeekdayname.html