Determining the day of the week

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Aeros
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Determining the day of the week

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Here's how to determine the day of the week, given the current date. Note that you will need to write your own script to determine the values of MM2, DD and YY. Hope this helps you. (Please note that this only works for dates between the year 2000 and 2099)

DD = day of current date
MM2 = month of current date (March = 3, November = 11, etc)
YY = last two digits of the current year (2006 = 6, etc)

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	var MM;
	case(MM2)
		1:	MM := 1;
		2:	MM := 4;
		3:	MM := 4;
		4:	MM := 0;
		5:	MM := 2;
		6:	MM := 5;
		7:	MM := 0;
		8:	MM := 3;
		9:	MM := 6;
		10:	MM := 1;
		11:	MM := 4;
		12:	MM := 6;
	endcase
	
	var a := Cint(YY / 4) + DD + MM + 6 + YY;
	var b := a / 7;
	var c := Cint(a - (7 * b));
	
	var d;
	case(c)
		1:	d := 0;
		2:	d := 1;
		3:	d := 2;
		4:	d := 3;
		5:	d := 4;
		6:	d := 5;
		0:	d := 6;
	endcase
		
	return d;
Values for d:

0 = Sunday
1 = Monday
2 = Tuesday
3 = Wednesday
4 = Thursday
5 = Friday
6 = Saturday
Matrix
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Post by Matrix »

Well, it sounds to be another Millenar bug in 2099
Aeros
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Post by Aeros »

No, there isnt a bug. That 6 that im adding just changes according to the century, by using the Key Value Method:

1600's, 2000's, 2400's, 2800's = 6
1700's, 2100's, 2500's, 2900's = 4
1800's, 2200's, 2600's, 3000's = 2
1900's, 2300's, 2700's, 3100's = 0
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