AW: Need to know Day of any Date

[Werner Noll <werner.noll@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is a snippet from a procedure, which uses the CEEDYWK API:

*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
* yDayOfWeek returns the day of the week (1=Sunday, . . 7=Saturday)       
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 yDayOfWeek      B                   Export                               
* Procedure interface                                                     
 yDayOfWeek      PI             1S 0                                      
  p$InDate                       D   Const DatFmt(*ISO)                   
*                                                                         
* BaseDate is the day the calendar changed                                
  BaseDate       S               D   Inz(D'1582-10-14') Static            
  nDayOfWeek     S             10I 0 Static                               
  nDays          S             10I 0                                      
  r$Day          S              1S 0                                      
*---------------------------------------------------------------*         
/free                                                                     
  Test(E) p$InDate;                                                       
  If %error;                                                              
     Return -1;                                                           
  EndIf;                                                                  
   nDays = %diff(p$InDate:BaseDate:*D); 
                                        
   CallP CEEDYWK(nDays:nDayOfweek);     
   r$Day = nDayOfWeek;                  
   Return r$Day;                        
                                        
 /end-free                              
P yDayOfWeek      E                     

Regards,
Werner Noll
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Betreff: Need to know Day of any Date


HI,
 
I need to know Day of any transaction date. My transaction date 8,0 numeric
(yyyymmdd format), RPG *DAY code gives me current Job's Day in numeric value
but I need Day of any given date and like to know Day as SAT,SUN,MON etc.
Please help me how to get it in simple way.
 
 
Regard.
  
 
Amir Raza Khan
 
 
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