Weekday Function

Returns a whole number representing the day of the week.

Weekday(date, [firstdayofweek])

Arguments

date: Any expression that can represent a date. If date contains Null, Null is returned.
firstdayofweek: A constant that specifies the first day of the week. If omitted, vbSunday is assumed.

Settings

The firstdayofweek argument has these settings:

Constant	Value	Description
vbUseSystemDayOfWeek	0	Use National Language Support (NLS) API setting.
vbSunday	1	Sunday
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

The following example uses the Weekday function to obtain the day of the week from a specified date:

Dim MyDate, MyWeekDay
MyDate = #October 19, 1962#   ' Assign a date.
MyWeekDay = Weekday(MyDate)   ' MyWeekDay contains 6 because MyDate represents a Friday.

Requirements