EnumCalendarInfo and SYSTEMTIME

[Bern Ertl]

Thanks.

[Egbert Zijlema]

Bern,

Combined with my Greg.-library I use this (different values, but same idea, I guess):

%LOCALE_SDAYNAME1              = &H0000002A   ' long name for Monday
%LOCALE_SDAYNAME2              = &H0000002B   ' long name for Tuesday
%LOCALE_SDAYNAME3              = &H0000002C   ' long name for Wednesday
%LOCALE_SDAYNAME4              = &H0000002D   ' long name for Thursday
%LOCALE_SDAYNAME5              = &H0000002E   ' long name for Friday
%LOCALE_SDAYNAME6              = &H0000002F   ' long name for Saturday
%LOCALE_SDAYNAME7              = &H00000030   ' long name for Sunday

This is my function:

' ******************************************************************************
' * Function DayName - returns the locale-specific name of the day of the week *
' * parameters: wWeekDay: 1 = Monday ..... 7 = Sunday                          *
' *             dwLocale: country/language specific locale                     *
' *                       (defaults to %LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT if omitted or 0)   *
' *                                                                            *
' * NOTE: In Windows' SYSTEMTIME structure wDayOfWeek = 0 means Sunday         *
' *       This function now accepts both 0 and 7 as well for Sundays           *
' ******************************************************************************
FUNCTION DayName(BYVAL wWeekDay AS WORD, OPTIONAL BYVAL dwLocale AS DWORD) AS STRING
  LOCAL szDayName AS ASCIIZ * 16, LCType AS LONG

  IF wWeekDay = 0 THEN wWeekday = 7                                 ' make function compatible with SYSTEMTIME's wDayOfWeek
  LCType = %LOCALE_SDAYNAME1 + wWeekDay - 1
  IF GetLocaleInfo(dwLocale, LCType, szDayName, SIZEOF(szDayName)) THEN
    FUNCTION = szDayName
  ELSE
    FUNCTION = ""
  END IF
END FUNCTION

[Bern Ertl]

Thanks Egbert. I found similar remarks in constant declarations for VB code on the internet, but I couldn't find anything in the MSDN documentation to confirm it. MSDN simply refers to the constants as representing "the ... day of the week". I guess I'll just run with it.

[Egbert Zijlema]

Hi Bern,

As you might know, I prefer to use my own Gregorian Date routines for calendar/date issues. But this is what I find in WIN32API.INC:

%CAL_SDAYNAME1          = &H00000007  ' native name for Monday
%CAL_SDAYNAME2          = &H00000008  ' native name for Tuesday
%CAL_SDAYNAME3          = &H00000009  ' native name for Wednesday
%CAL_SDAYNAME4          = &H0000000a  ' native name for Thursday
%CAL_SDAYNAME5          = &H0000000b  ' native name for Friday
%CAL_SDAYNAME6          = &H0000000c  ' native name for Saturday
%CAL_SDAYNAME7          = &H0000000d  ' native name for Sunday

Can this be considered as valid documentation?

Regards
Egbert

[Bern Ertl]

Just to clarify, I need to be able to map the day of week for a date returned from a SysDateTimePicker control (stored in a SYSTEMTIME function) to some data I've stored in an array with elements spanning %CAL_SDAYNAME1 to %CAL_SDAYNAME7.

SYSTEMTIME (.wDayOfWeek) always uses 0 for Sunday. If EnumCalendarInfo is always using Monday for %CAL_SDAYNAME1 (offset 0), that would be fine as I could adjust the array index accordingly, but I can't seem to find any documentation stating whether that is true or not.

[Bern Ertl]

Well, I might have been wrong.

I found that GetLocaleInfo with %LOCALE_IFIRSTDAYOFWEEK returns a number from 0 to 6, but when I'm testing on my computer with %LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, it's returning 6 which corresponds to %CAL_SDAYNAME7 which returns Sunday.

Does %CAL_SDAYNAME1 always correspond to Monday?

[Bern Ertl]

The wDayOfWeek element of the SYSTEMTIME structure always equates 0 with Sunday, 1 with Monday, etc.

EnumCalendarInfo using %CAL_SDAYNAME1/%CAL_SABBREVDAYNAME1 could be Sunday, Monday or another day depending upon locale settings.

How can I map the %CAL_SDAYNAME1 day to the correct wDayOfWeek value? Ie. is there an API function that lets me know which day of the week corresponds to %CAL_SDAYNAME1?