[WebDNA] linux fix for date to day of week

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2008

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texte = Aloha all, I wrote a function so folks on Linux that need to get the day ofweek from any date (after 1582 or something like that at least) can use thisfunction. Should be easy to modify for your needs. All other platforms, thisfunction is not necessary. The Linux version has a bug with the day of weekin the format days to date function.To use, just call the function and pass in the date you want to check likethis[convertdate thisdate=[date]]Laters, Olin[function name=convertdate] [math]month=[Format Days_To_Date%m][math]{[thisdate]}[/math][/Format][/math] [math]year=[Format Days_To_Date%Y][math]{[thisdate]}[/math][/Format][/math] [math]day=[Format Days_To_Date%d][math]{[thisdate]}[/math][/Format][/math]  [showif [month]<3] [math]month=month+12[/math] [math]year=year-1[/math] [/showif]  [switch value=[math](day+(2*month)+floor(6*(month +1)/10)+year+floor(year/4)-floor(year/100)+floor(year/400)+1)%7[/math]] [case value=0] [return]Sun[/return] [/case] [case value=1] [return]Mon[/return] [/case] [case value=2] [return]Tue[/return] [/case] [case value=3] [return]Wed[/return] [/case] [case value=4] [return]Thu[/return] [/case] [case value=5] [return]Fri[/return] [/case] [case value=6] [return]Sat[/return] [/case] [/switch] [return][/return][/function] Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

[WebDNA] linux fix for date to day of week ("Olin Lagon" 2008)

Aloha all, I wrote a function so folks on Linux that need to get the day ofweek from any date (after 1582 or something like that at least) can use thisfunction. Should be easy to modify for your needs. All other platforms, thisfunction is not necessary. The Linux version has a bug with the day of weekin the format days to date function.To use, just call the function and pass in the date you want to check likethis[convertdate thisdate=[date]]Laters, Olin[function name=convertdate] [math]month=[Format Days_To_Date%m][math]{[thisdate]}[/math][/Format][/math] [math]year=[Format Days_To_Date%Y][math]{[thisdate]}[/math][/Format][/math] [math]day=[Format Days_To_Date%d][math]{[thisdate]}[/math][/Format][/math]  [showif [month]<3] [math]month=month+12[/math] [math]year=year-1[/math] [/showif]  [switch value=[math](day+(2*month)+floor(6*(month +1)/10)+year+floor(year/4)-floor(year/100)+floor(year/400)+1)%7[/math]] [case value=0] [return]Sun[/return] [/case] [case value=1] [return]Mon[/return] [/case] [case value=2] [return]Tue[/return] [/case] [case value=3] [return]Wed[/return] [/case] [case value=4] [return]Thu[/return] [/case] [case value=5] [return]Fri[/return] [/case] [case value=6] [return]Sat[/return] [/case] [/switch] [return][/return][/function] "Olin Lagon"

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