how to get first day of the week

[Dario Volaric]

Hi,

Does annyone know how i can get director to detect what day it is? Like
"monday, tuesday, etc.."
I want it to know what day the first day of the week is. I tried "the long
date". In dutch language settings it shows
-- "maandag 16 februari 2004"
But when i switch to UK locale settings it shows
-- "16 February 2004"
as the full date.
So i cannot use this to determen what day of the week it is. Does annyone
know a trick that will work?

Thanx.

[Andrew Morton]

put the systemDate-date(2000,1,1)
-- 1507
put 1507 mod 7
-- 2

Today is Monday, so you can see that Monday is represented by the number 2 *when
you use 2000-01-01 as the reference date*. So you can get the today's day name
for any date after 2000-01-01 with

dn=["Sat","Sun","Mon","Tue","Wed","Thu","Fri"][(the systemDate-date(2000,1,1))
mod 7+1]

Andrew

[Dario Volaric]

Tanx man, you rock!

:-)


"Andrew Morton" <akm@in-press.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
news:c0qe9c$oj4$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> put the systemDate-date(2000,1,1)
> -- 1507
> put 1507 mod 7
> -- 2
>
> Today is Monday, so you can see that Monday is represented by the number 2

*when

> you use 2000-01-01 as the reference date*. So you can get the today's day

name

> for any date after 2000-01-01 with
>
> dn=["Sat","Sun","Mon","Tue","Wed","Thu","Fri"][(the

systemDate-date(2000,1,1))

> mod 7+1]
>
> Andrew
>