Getting the weekday name

[Dick Kriesel]

On 11/13/10 1:44 PM, "Peter Haworth" <pete at mollysrevenge.com> wrote:

> I'm using the datetimetoJulian function in Sarah's great datetime
> stack as part of a way to get the alpha weekday name.  The words in
> Sarah's stack say that it's possible to get the day number of the week
> by taking the remainder of dividing the Julian days by 7 but when I do
> that, I consistently get a day number that is 2 less than it should be
> - that's assuming of course that day 1 would be Sunday.
> 
> I can always just add 2 to the day number but wondering if anyone
> knows why this would happen?
> 
> Pete Haworth
> 

Hi, Pete.  Might your task be easier using "dateItems" as this example does?

function dayOfWeek tDate
   convert tDate to dateItems
   return item last item of tDate of \
          "Sunday,Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday,Saturday"
end dayOfWeek

-- Dick