Getting the weekday name

[Peter Haworth]

Thanks.  I forgot that I have been using the SQLite strftime function  
to do all my date formatting/calculations so I think I'll just use that.

Pete Haworth

On Nov 14, 2010, at 12:35 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 11/13/10 4:55 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
>> The dates are coming from an SQL database, so they are in yyyy-mm-dd
>> format - will that work or do I need to convert them to some other  
>> dat?
>> I already have a function that converts the SQL dates to the external
>> format mm/dd/yy if that would work better.
>
> You need to use your conversion function to change the dates to mm/ 
> dd/yy format. Then use the convert command to convert that to the  
> long date, and lift out the first item which will be the weekday name.
>
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