Re: calender with business days
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1998
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 19736
interpreted = N
texte = >>Has anyone done anything like this with WebCat that skips over weekends >>from a given date? Any jumpstarts (or kick starts) for my creative >>neuronal process would be greatly appreciated. > >I pre-built a database that contains 'deltas', e.g. 2 for saturday and 1 >for Sunday (and assumes that all mon-fri have a delta of 0). > >Date_As_Num Delta >736502 2 >736503 1 >736509 2 >736510 1 > >736502 is actually a Saturday, something like 8/15/98, represented as >number of days since 00/00/0000. The delta tells how many days to 'jump' >forward if you happen to land on that day. Regular days of the week always >jump forward 1 day, so there's no need to have them in the database. The >advantage to the database is that you can encode holidays with big deltas >to skip past Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc. > >Technical Support | ==== eCommerce and Beyond ==== >Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant, >11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster, >San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon >619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/ > That seems like a good way for a business calendar. But if the leadtime is 8 business days, there could be two weekends, so the delta would 4 not two. It's a start though. Hmmmmmm. Need chocolate.Sandy
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>>Has anyone done anything like this with WebCat that skips over weekends >>from a given date? Any jumpstarts (or kick starts) for my creative >>neuronal process would be greatly appreciated. > >I pre-built a database that contains 'deltas', e.g. 2 for saturday and 1 >for Sunday (and assumes that all mon-fri have a delta of 0). > >Date_As_Num Delta >736502 2 >736503 1 >736509 2 >736510 1 > >736502 is actually a Saturday, something like 8/15/98, represented as >number of days since 00/00/0000. The delta tells how many days to 'jump' >forward if you happen to land on that day. Regular days of the week always >jump forward 1 day, so there's no need to have them in the database. The >advantage to the database is that you can encode holidays with big deltas >to skip past Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc. > >Technical Support | ==== eCommerce and Beyond ==== >Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant, >11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster, >San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon >619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/ > That seems like a good way for a business calendar. But if the leadtime is 8 business days, there could be two weekends, so the delta would 4 not two. It's a start though. Hmmmmmm. Need chocolate.Sandy
Sandra L. Pitner
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