Weekday

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Weekday

Returns the day of the week, 1 to 7, counting from Sunday unless told otherwise.

Syntax

Declare Function Weekday ( ByVal serial As Double , ByVal firstdayofweek As Long = fbusesystem ) As Long

Parameters

• date_serial
• firstdayofweek

Description

The week day values must be in the range 1-7, its meaning depends on the firstdayofweek parameter

firstdayofweek 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

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

Return Value

Returns the week day number from a variable containing a date in Date Serial format.

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

Examples

#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)

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Category: Date and Time Functions
Kind: function

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