re: Does anyone ever need to know what "next Friday" is?

At 11:53 PM 1/9/98 +0000, you wrote:
>I am curious if anyone else ever needs to know the "next Friday (or 
>_any_day )" is for defaults on screens, etc?   I needed to know and wrote
>a little program to do it, but wondered afterwards if there is some simple
>command, or if no one else ever cares.
>
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>Booth Martin     
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Booth  A few times I had the need for that also.
 Example  any booking that  requires future  dates
        Charter Buses
        Banquet  Halls
        Reservations systems
are a few that come to mind.

I  also  had a company that had scheduled routes so the 1at  3rd or  what
ever  Monday Tues  etc. was  very important to scheduling  and adding  a
stop or  event.

Even had to  do that in MS Access.

Back to the 400  try the API or some of the standard date routine code.  A
few provide the  day of the week as well as other functions..  Some
routines accept 'parms' in and allow specification of return variables
- duration, date, format, day of week, day of year,  week of  month/year
and  hundreds more..... I  guess you could treat  this  with a  simple
CMD/CPP front end and get the return values you want - In the true sense it
is still programming - but less on your part.


Glenn
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