Extracts the day number associated with a specified date value.

Syntax

$day(date)

Parameters

Return Value

Character string.

Comments

This function extracts day information from standard date values. Date is often the system variable $Date.

Example

$day(19981225)

Evaluates to “25”.

$day($date+7)

Evaluates to “1” when $Date is 19991225.

See Also

$adddays

$Date

$dayname

$month

$monthname

$weekday

$year