Name
WeekdayName Function
Syntax
WeekdayName(WeekdayNo
, [abbreviate
[,FirstDayOfWeek
]])
WeekdayNo
Use: Required
Data Type: Long
The ordinal number of the required weekday, from 1 to 7.
abbreviate
Use: Optional
Data Type: Boolean
Specifies whether to return the full day name or an abbreviation.
FirstDayOfWeek
Use: Optional
Data Type: Integer
Specifies which day of the week should be first.
Return Value
A String.
Description
Returns the real name of the day.
Rules at a Glance
WeekDayNo
must be a number between 1 and 7, or the function generates runtime error 5, “Invalid procedure call or argument.”If
FirstDayOfWeek
is omitted,WeekdayName
treats Sunday as the first day of the week.The default value of
abbreviate
isFalse
.
Programming Tips and Gotchas
You’d expect that, given a date, WeekDayName would return the name of that date’s day. But this isn’t how the function works. To determine the name of the day of a particular date, combine WeekDayName with a call to the WeekDay function, as the following code fragment shows:
sDay = WeekDayName(Weekday(dDate, iFirstDay), _ bFullName, iFirstDay)
Note that the value of the
FirstDayOfWeek
argument must be the same in the calls to both functions for WeekDayName to return an accurate result.
See Also
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