Programming instructions

Intermec Fingerprint v7.61 – Programmer’s Reference Manual Ed. 7274
Chapter 2 Program Instructions
WEEKDAY$
Field of Application Returning the name of the weekday from a specifi ed date.
Syntax WEEKDAY$(<sexp>)
<sexp> is the date for which the name of the weekday, according
to a list of weekday names created by means of NAME
WEEKDAY$ statement , will be returned.
Remarks
This function returns the name of the weekday according to a list of
weekday names specifi ed by means of NAME WEEKDAY$ statement
or–if the name is missing–the full English name in lowercase characters,
for example “friday".
YY = Year Last two digits (for example 2000 = 00)
MM = Month Two digits (01-12)
DD = Day Two digits (01-28|29|30|31)
Example: December 1, 2000 is entered as "001201".
The built-in calendar corrects illegal values for the years 1980-2048, for
example the illegal date 001232 will be corrected to 010101.
Example This example shows how to make the printer return the name of the
weekday as a three-letter English abbreviation in connection with a
formatted date:
10 FORMAT DATE$ ", MM/DD/YY"
20 DATE$="001201"
30 NAME WEEKDAY$ 1, "Mon"
40 NAME WEEKDAY$ 2, "Tue"
50 NAME WEEKDAY$ 3, "Wed"
60 NAME WEEKDAY$ 4, "Thu"
70 NAME WEEKDAY$ 5, "Fri"
80 NAME WEEKDAY$ 6, "Sat"
90 NAME WEEKDAY$ 7, "Sun"
100 PRINT WEEKDAY$ (DATE$) + DATE$("F")
RUN
yields:
Fri, 12/01/00