Manuals/calci/TODATE

TODATE (DayIndex)


  • is any number from 1 to 7.

Description

  • This function shows the name of day for the given Index number.
  • In  ,  is the any number from 1 to 7.
  • The names of the 7 days of the week in most Latin-based languages come from the Roman calendar, which related each day with 7 celestial bodies considered to be gods: the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
  • The 7-day-week provides a clear method of representing dates and times to avoid misinterpretation between people from different countries with varying traditions for writing numeric dates and times.
  • According to the international standard,Monday is the first day of week.
  • Although this is the international standard, several countries, including the United States, Canada, and Australia consider Sunday as the start of the week.
  • So in this function first day of the week is considered as SUNDAY.
  • Second day of the week is MONDAY and so on.
  • This function will return the result as error when the parameter value is other than 1 to 7.

Examples

  1. TODATE(3) = Tuesday
  2. TODATE(1) = Sunday
  3. TODATE(0) = 0
  4. TODATE(7) = Saturday

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