RE: Can I get the Day of the week?

works great.






MNWills@taylorcorp.com@midrange.com on 05/16/2001 09:30:07 AM

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The one problem I have with most of these suggestions is that the date is
then dependant upon a known date. Doesn't other people see something wrong
with this?

Mike

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From: boldt@ca.ibm.com [mailto:boldt@ca.ibm.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 7:12 AM
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Subject: Re: Can I get the Day of the week?


From: "Christopher J. Devous" <cdevous@antigua.com>
Subject: RE: Can I get the Day of the week?
Christopher wrote:
>Try this, it's based on the famous "Doomsday" algorithm by JH Conway:
>
>    100
**************************************************************************
>    200       ***
>    300       ***      Program Name --  DOWK
>    400       ***      Description  --  Calculate Day of Week from
Gregorian
>    500       ***                       Date
>    600       ***      Author       --  Christopher J. Devous

As much as I respect John Horton Conway, RPG programmers can't do
day of week computation much shorter than with this procedure:

 //\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\//
 // Procedure:  DayOfWeek                                           //
 // Purpose:  Determine the day of week for a particular date       //
 // Parameters:                                                     //
 //    I: dt   -- date                                              //
 // Returns:                                                        //
 //    0..6    -- 0=Sunday, 1=Monday, 2=Tuesday, etc.               //
 // Notes:                                                          //
 //    January 5, 1800 is a Sunday.  This procedure only works for  //
 //    dates later than 1800-01-05.                                 //
 //\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\//
P DayOfWeek       b
D DayOfWeek       pi            10i 0
D   dt                            d   value datfmt(*iso)
 /free
    return %rem (%diff (dt: d'1800-01-05': *days): 7);
 /end-free
P DayOfWeek       e





Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com

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