RE: Can I get the Day of the week?

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For many years our shop standard was an all purpose date routine that used a
Wednesday for the seed date.  It was a Jan 1, I forget the year.  The
interesting thing was that it was documented by oral tradition.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Handy [mailto:dhandy1@bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 4:47 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Can I get the Day of the week?
> 
> 
> James,
> 
> >I've actually had a client -insist- that day 7 be Sunday.  
> It's just the way that
> >they viewed the world.
> 
> Not only that, but it is the international standard defined 
> by ISO, which says
> day 1 is Monday and day 7 is Sunday.  See ISO 8601.  "Day of 
> the week is
> represented by one decimal digit.  Monday shall be identified 
> as day [1] of any
> calendar week, and subsequent days of the same week shall be 
> numbered in
> ascending sequence to Sunday (day [7])."
> 
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