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DOW

Returns the Numeric value (1-7) of the day of week for a given date.

Reporting Area(s)

General

Required Parameters

  1. Date field (i.e. cobegdate, coenddate)

Optional Parameters

None

Example(s)

DOW(cobegdate) returns the number day of the week for Monday, September 5, 2017 as 2 ( where Sunday = 1 and Saturday = 7)

Notes

Standard FoxPro Function

USED FOR: To order a set of dates by day of week (so Mon,Tues,Wed,Thur,Fri … in DOW format 2,3,4,5,6 ) are sorted in the correct Day of Week.

CDOW
CTOD
DATE
DTOC
TRIMDATE
NICEDATE
CMONTH
MONTH
YEAR