Thanks all,


Pointed me in the right direction.



However, now I have another challenge that so far eludes me.



So I know that using (IWOY(.#DATE)) today will 13.



But I'm really trying to find out what the Monday and Friday of Week 13 are

so I can display something like "Week of 3/21 - 3/26".



Any suggestions appreciated.



Jan







From: Troy Sosamon <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:33:04 +0000
Subject: RE: [RBASE-L] - Date calculation


Jan,

Historically I have found building a table full of business days works best, 
so that you can take into account holidays and special days off/snow days
Along with a business day flag y/n
Put one row in for each business day for the year using a simple loop and 
Idwk function and a Y flag and then go flip the flag on the holidays and any 
other special days when you don’t operate.

Then you can just count the number of rows between any two dates where the 
flag = 'Y'.

I actually had an app with 2 flags because the company was a car auction so 
actual business days for sellers and buyers were not always the same so 
there was a flag for each because sometimes it might not be a business day 
for the sellers if you cant go pickup cars because of a snowstorm, but are 
open for buyers who can make in to the location to pay their bills.  This 
data was used for calculating buyer storage and seller pickup SLA reports.

Just depends on your application and what you need to accomplish with it.

Troy


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of A. 
Razzak Memon
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 5:25 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - Date calculation

Jan,

Here's how ...

Use the IDWK function to exclude the 6th and 7th (Saturday and
Sunday) day of the Week.
-- IDWK returns the day of the week where Monday is 1.

-- Example 01
SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE (IDWK(datecolumn)) NOT IN (6,7)

-- Example 02
SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE (IDWK(datetimecolumn)) NOT IN (6,7)

That's all there is to it!

Have fun.

Very Best R:egards,

Razzak



At 07:15 AM 3/16/2021, jan johansen wrote:

>Group,
>
>Anyone got a good date algorithm that ignores weekends? Or in other
>words, only counts workdays?
>
>Jan







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