Day of the week?

mpullin

What is the most efficient way of determining the day of the week given the date? If you had to write a NetLinx function to do something based on what day of the week it was, what would you do?

John Gonzales

Netlinx has a built in function for determining day based on date:

DAY_OF_WEEK
Returns the day of the week for the specified date.

Syntax:

SINTEGER DAY_OF_WEEK (CHAR LDATE[ ])

Parameters:

LDATE - string containing the date in mm/dd/yyyy format.

Result:

Integer representing the day of the week (1 = Sunday, 2 = Monday, etc.).

Example:

nDAY = DAY_OF_WEEK ('2/13/1999') // nDAY = 7 (Saturday)

Toss a comparator using the above function into a timeline that repeats every day and if the day is a match, call your function.

--John

mpullin

Huh. Dunno how I missed that one. Thanks!