GetDayName

Icetips Utilities Documentation 7/6/2012

Date Class: GetDayName

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Prototype:

(Byte pDay, Byte pLongName=True),String

pDay	Day of the week, starting with 1 for Sunday

pLongName

Determine if it should return the long/full day name. This parameter is true by default.

Returns

The day name as it has been specified by the Constructor or by updating the day names by SetDayName

This method is used to retrieve the day name, such as "Sunday" based on a day number, 0 for Sunday, 1 for Monday and so on. The Constructor calls the InitDayNames which sets the English day names, both long and short (3 character abbreviated day names, Sun, Mon, etc.) Day name constants are declared in the ITEquates.inc file to make day selections easy, IT_Sunday, IT_Monday, IT_Tuesday, IT_Wednesday, IT_Thursday, IT_Friday, IT_Saturday.

Example:

ITD ITDateClass

TheDate Date

Code

TheDate = Date(1,1,2012)

ITD.GetDayName(TheDate % 7, True) !! Get the day name for Jan 1, 2012, which should return "Sunday"

Message('January 1, 2012 was a: ' & ITD.GetDayName(TheDate % 7))