dateitems day-of-week disjunction

panagiotis merakos merakosp at gmail.com
Wed Jan 25 12:28:33 EST 2017


It was confirmed as a docs bug some time ago:

http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16044

Panos
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> I believe it depends on the system settings. If your localization is set
> to where Sunday is the 1st day of the week, then Wednesday would in fact be
> the 4th.
>
> Bob S
>
>
> On Jan 25, 2017, at 09:16 , Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com<mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>
> wrote:
>
> The dictionary says that the seventh item of dateitems is
> the numeric day of the week where Monday is day 1, Tuesday is day 2, and
> so forth
>
> When I try this I find that today, Wednesday, the seventh item is 4.  If I
> change the date to Sunday, it's 1.
>
> (Both docs and behaviour are consistent with 6.7.11 or 8.1.3 (rc 1) or
> versions in between.)
>
> Is this an error in the documentation, or an error in the code (in which
> case too long standing to change, so it might as well be treated as an
> error in the docs); or is it due to some setting somewhere?
>
> TIA.
>
> Ben
>
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