Re: Determining "Business Days" (i.e. No Saturday/Sunday)

Thanks Don !

That's what I have been doing too. My file has YYYYMMDD, the Julian date, day of
week, week of year AND the day name (Monday, etc) !

Just wondering with all of the new stuff if something better was out there and I
gotten some good inof :-)

Chuck

Chuck

Don Schenck wrote:

> :::Hi Folks,
> :::
> :::Anyone have a method of determining when a day is a business day (i.e.
> :::Mon-Fri) ?
> :::
> :::I have a method I developed YEARS ago (load a file with all dates and
> :::the actual day, etc) and it is "Y2K" but I'm wondering with the new RPG
> :::IV and ILE stuff is there something that handles this ?
> :::
> :::I have EVEN looked through the online books a bit. I've used ADDUR, etc
> :::but haven't seen anything on this...
>
> Chuck --
>
> I do this the old-fashioned but MOST FLEXIBLE way: I have a "Day" file. I 
>store
> on record for each day.
>
> This way, the user can determine which days are work days and which aren't. 
>For
> example, in Muslim countries, Friday is the sabbath. They work six days a 
>week.
>
> This also allows for "special" days off, weekend work, etc etc.
>
> Peace,
>
> -- Don Schenck
> www.SchenckTech.com
>
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