Visual Basic Scripting Edition  

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

Version 1

See Also

Date Function | Day Function | Month Function | Now Function | Year Function