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FT_DAYTOBOW()
Calculate no. of days between date and beginning of week
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Syntax
FT_DAYTOBOW( [ <dGivenDate> ] ) -> nDays
Arguments
<dGivenDate> is any valid date in any valid date format.
Defaults to current date if not supplied.
Returns
A positive number of days to beginning of week, range 0 to 6.
Description
FT_DAYTOBOW() returns the number of days to the beginning of the
week. Normally this will be one less than the value that
would be returned by the Clipper function DOW(), unless the
day for the beginning of the week has been changed with
FT_DATECNFG().
Examples
dDate := CTOD( "09/15/90" )
? DOW( dDate ) // 7
? CDOW( dDate ) // Saturday
? FT_DAYTOBOW( dDate ) // 6
// change beginning of week to Friday (yeah!)
FT_DATECNFG( , 6 )
? DOW( dDate ) // 7
? CDOW( dDate ) // Saturday
? FT_DAYTOBOW( dDate ) // 1
Source: DAYTOBOW.PRG
Author: Jo W. French dba Practical Computing
See Also:
FT_DATECNFG()
FT_ACCTWEEK()
FT_WEEK()
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