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- | '''DayName Function''' -- Part of the CometDate series of functions. | + | '''DayName Function''' -- Part of the [[CometDates|CometDate series]] of functions. |
'''Syntax:''' DayName(CometDate) | '''Syntax:''' DayName(CometDate) |
Latest revision as of 20:32, 25 January 2011
DayName Function -- Part of the CometDate series of functions.
Syntax: DayName(CometDate)
Discussion: The CometDate DayName function extracts the Day of the week from a CometDate Date Serial Number. CometDates are based on a date of January 1, 1800. CometDates before that date are negative and after are positive. The Days extracted are: "Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday"
This is a string function which yields the Full name of the Day in question. If you assign the result string to a 3 byte variable you may extract the 3 byte Day abbreviation.
The CometDate functions respect the rules for leap years (i.e., the years 1800 and 1900 were not leap years, but the year 2000 is a leap year).
The practical range of CometDates is -657071 (01/01/01) to 2994623 (12/31/9999) but dates outside of that range may be usable in some contexts. There is no year 0 AD, The date goes from 1BC to 1AD.
For a reference of all of the functions associated with CometDates see this page CometDates.