Xbasic

DOW_ISO Function

Syntax

Day_of_Week as N = dow_iso(D date )

Arguments

Day_of_Week

The ISO day of the week (Monday = 1, Sunday = 7).

date

The date to be analyzed.

Description

Returns the ISO 8601 Day of Week # where Monday is day 1 and Sunday is day 7

Discussion

The DOW_ISO() function returns the ISO day of the week.

Example

? dow_iso(date() )
= 4
? dow_iso( ctod( "01/19/2006") )
= 4

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