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Day name mismatch

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Posted on by Anand AX 2,172

Hello all,

I want to display the day name with respect to the date selected, for that i used the below example. But when i run this job, its showing day name as"Thurs day" instead of "Monday". Could you please explain, why it is showing like that...!

public void sampledate()
{

DateOnhand   d;
;

d = today();

info(strfmt("Date - %1",d));

info(strfmt("Day Name - %1",dayname(dayOfMth(d))));

}

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    Sohaib Cheema Profile Picture
    Sohaib Cheema 49,664 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    have you tried dayOfWk() as under:-

    date d = today();

       int i;

       ;

       i = dayOfWk(d);

       info("Today's day of the week is " + dayName(i));

    Note that it would take value form your local date time of session

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    Anand AX 2,172 on at

    Hi Sohaib Cheema,

    Thanks for reply, Your code is working fine. Thank you, but why the above code(mine) is showing today as thursday, Is there any reason behind?

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    Sohaib Cheema 49,664 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    it  because of definition of dayName Function

    it will not care how you are giving it value. it will take only value. Today as date is 18-JAN-2016, so it calculates it like following

    18 = 7+7+4

    7 = Make Count from zero

    7 = again make count from 0

    4 = Monday, Tuesday, Wed, Thursday

    That's the reason, it gives you wrong result

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    Anand AX 2,172 on at

    Hi Sohaib Cheema,

    Thank you so much for clear explanation.

  • Bashir Ahmad Profile Picture
    Bashir Ahmad 5,248 on at

    You can get Name of the Day by passing the day number as param:

       and use something like that :

    public DueDate  getWeekStartDate(DueDate _Date)
{
  str       nameOfDay;
  int    i;
  DueDate      StartDateofWeek =_Date ;
        i      = dayOfWk( _date);
    nameOfDay = dayName (i);

  switch (nameOfDay)
  {
    case enum2str(WeekDays::Saturday):
            //todo
            break;

    case enum2str(WeekDays::Sunday):
            //todo
            break;
          
    case enum2str(WeekDays::Monday):
           //todo
            break;);
           

    case enum2str(WeekDays::Tuesday):
             //todo
            break;);

      case enum2str(WeekDays::Wednesday):
             //todo
            break;

      case enum2str(WeekDays::Thursday):
         //todo
         break;
      case enum2str(WeekDays::Friday):
       
            break;

      default:
            break;
  }
   return DateofWeek;

}

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