mm@blake.acs.washington.edu (Eric Gorr) (04/30/89)
Hello, I was wonding if anyone had a script, XMCD, etc.. that if I were to tell it (format doesn't matter) 4/27/89 it would tell me that it was a thursday. Thanx..... :=))
stone@hydra.unm.edu (Andrew Stone CS.DEPT) (04/30/89)
In article <1814@blake.acs.washington.edu> mm@blake.acs.washington.edu (Eric Gorr) writes: >Hello, I was wonding if anyone had a script, XMCD, etc.. that if I were to >tell it (format doesn't matter) 4/27/89 it would tell me that it was a >thursday. Try this: function getDayOfWeek myDate convert myDate to long date return first item of myDate end getDayOfWeek example: put getDayOfWeek(2/12/56) returns: Sunday andrew ||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||<<??>>||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>|| !! Andrew Stone !! the fictive milieu of !! !! stone@hydra.unm.edu <> contemporary society! !! ||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||<<??>>||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||
englandr@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Englander) (05/01/89)
I think there is an example in the Help stack -- see "date" there.
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- Scottaisl@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Lawrence Landry) (05/02/89)
In article <1814@blake.acs.washington.edu> mm@blake.acs.washington.edu (Eric Gorr) writes: >Hello, I was wonding if anyone had a script, XMCD, etc.. that if I were to >tell it (format doesn't matter) 4/27/89 it would tell me that it was a >thursday. function weekDay theDate convert theDate to dateItems put item 7 of theDate into dayNumber put "Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday" into wk return item dayNumber of wk end weekDay Larry Landry University of Rochester