Re: Calculating Working(business) days

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That should be a simple subroutine/service program.

Very simple to do.  You determine how many business days left for be beginning 
week,
how many left for the ending week, and how many inbetween.

Say the dates are August 23 (Wednesday) to September 21st (Thursday).

First, there are 3 business days inclusive left this week (Wed, Thr and Fri).
Second, there are 4 business days inclusive the last week (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu).

There are 30 days inclusive between the dates (EndDate - StartDate) + 1.
Take off the days in the weeks we have already calculated.  4 days for the 
first week
(Wed, Thr, Fri and Sat) and 5 days for the last week (Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thr).
30 - 9 = 21.  21 / 7 = 3.  3 full weeks.  3 * 5 (5 working days each week) = 15.

So, 3 + 4 + 15 = 22 working days between Aug 23 and Sep 21.

This is the type of thing I would write a subroutine for, get it all working 
perfectly,
then stick it in a service program.  Even though you may only have to call it 
once or
twice it's somethign you don't want to have to maintain more than once.

Say you decide to exclude holidays, etc..  Just change it in one spot.



oludare wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Is there a tool or utility that can be use to calculate a date from a given
> date with a duration of 'n' business days (Mon-Fri).
> (assume no holidays)
>
> Dare

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