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Weekday function

Returns a Variant (Integer) containing a whole number representing the day of the week.

Syntax

Weekday(date, [ firstdayofweek ])

The Weekday function syntax has these named arguments:

Part Description
date Required. Variant, numeric expression, string expression, or any combination, that can represent a date. If date contains Null, Null is returned.
firstdayofweek Optional. A constant that specifies the first day of the week. If not specified, vbSunday is assumed.

Settings

The firstdayofweek argument has these settings:

Constant Value Description
vbUseSystem 0 Use the NLS API setting.
vbSunday 1 Sunday (default)
vbMonday 2 Monday
vbTuesday 3 Tuesday
vbWednesday 4 Wednesday
vbThursday 5 Thursday
vbFriday 6 Friday
vbSaturday 7 Saturday

Return values

The Weekday function can return any of these values:

Constant Value Description
vbSunday 1 Sunday
vbMonday 2 Monday
vbTuesday 3 Tuesday
vbWednesday 4 Wednesday
vbThursday 5 Thursday
vbFriday 6 Friday
vbSaturday 7 Saturday

Remarks

If the Calendar property setting is Gregorian, the returned integer represents the Gregorian day of the week for the date argument.

If the calendar is Hijri, the returned integer represents the Hijri day of the week for the date argument. For Hijri dates, the argument number is any numeric expression that can represent a date and/or time from 1/1/100 (Gregorian Aug 2, 718) through 4/3/9666 (Gregorian Dec 31, 9999).

Example

This example uses the Weekday function to obtain the day of the week from a specified date.

Dim MyDate, MyWeekDay
MyDate = #February 12, 1969#    ' Assign a date.
MyWeekDay = Weekday(MyDate)    ' MyWeekDay contains 4 because 
    ' MyDate represents a Wednesday.

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