VBS TUTORIAL: function-weekday function _vbs

Weekday function

Returns an integer that represents the day of the week.

Weekday(date, [firstdayofweek])

Parameters

Date

An arbitrary expression that can represent a date. If NULL is included in the date argument, nullis returned.

FirstDayOfWeek

Specifies the constant for the first day of the week. If omitted, vbsundayis used by default.

Set up

The FirstDayOfWeek parameter has the following settings:

Constants	value	Description
Vbusesystem	0	Use the regional language Support (NLS) API settings.
Vbsunday	1	Sunday
Vbmonday	2	Monday
Vbtuesday	3	Tuesday
Vbwednesday	4	Wednesday
Vbthursday	5	Thursday
Vbfriday	6	Friday
Vbsaturday	7	Saturday

return value

The weekday function returns the following values:

Constants	value	Description
Vbsunday	1	Sunday
Vbmonday	2	Monday
Vbtuesday	3	Tuesday
Vbwednesday	4	Wednesday
Vbthursday	5	Thursday
Vbfriday	6	Friday
Vbsaturday	7	Saturday

Description

The following example uses the weekday function to get the specified date as the day of the week:

Dim MyDate, MyWeekDayMyDate = #October 19, 1962#    Dispatch date. Weekday(MyDate) ' due to the  inclusion  represents Friday.