Re: Can I get the Day of the week?

[James David Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 16 May 2001, Douglas Handy wrote:

> >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])."

Okay - this is easy to solve.  Since you have to have a /COPY member (or
now /INCLUDE member *yea!*) to define the getdayofweek() function do this:

Suppose your /COPY member is called DATE_H

Just put in DATE_H these defines

D SUNDAY        C       CONST(<whatever value you want to match your
                                method of calculating dayofweek>)
D MONDAY        C       CONST(<you get the idea>)
D TUESDAY
D ...

Now all apps use SUNDAY and MONDAY, etc. instead of worrying about if
Sunday is day 0 or 1 or 7.

James Rich
james@eaerich.com

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