DayName, IsWeekend, IsWeekday. None of them work. I used day name and fed
it both the raw date, and the system returned date in a variable. Today is 12/21/2002.
DayName returns Monday, and IsWeekend returns FALSE, IsWeekday returns TRUE.
Is this a bug with a fix available. I'd really like to suspend
certain jobs on the weekends, but this problem makes it impossible.

Thank you,
Adam

I agree with you today is 12/21/2002, but in your script...

Can you post your script so I can tell you why it returns values for 12/22/2002?

: DayName, IsWeekend, IsWeekday. None of them work. I used day name and fed
: it both the raw date, and the system returned date in a variable. Today is
: 12/21/2002.
: DayName returns Monday, and IsWeekend returns FALSE, IsWeekday returns TRUE.
: Is this a bug with a fix available. I'd really like to suspend
: certain jobs on the weekends, but this problem makes it impossible.

: Thank you,
: Adam

: I agree with you today is 12/21/2002, but in your script...

: Can you post your script so I can tell you why it returns values for
: 12/22/2002?

I broke it down to just three lines and get the same result. Here they are:
Dim(TodaysDay, String)
DayName( "12/21/2002", TodaysDay )
MessageBox( TodaysDay )

It returns "Monday"

Interesting... something with the string to date conversion in DayName call. If you turn on the tracing you will see that the second line in your script is not executed as you expect it. Here is a copy & paste from the 24x7 trace window

JAL 1: DIM
JAL 1: Executing DIM("TODAYSDAY", "STRING")
JAL 2: DAYNAME
JAL 2: Executing DAYNAME("1/1/1900", "")
JAL Return "Monday"
JAL 3: MESSAGEBOX

Anyway, try the following:

Dim(TodaysDay, String)
Dim(TodaysDate, Date)
Set(TodaysDate, "12/21/2002")
DayName( TodaysDate, TodaysDay )
MessageBox( TodaysDay )

: I broke it down to just three lines and get the same result. Here they are:
: Dim(TodaysDay, String)
: DayName( "12/21/2002", TodaysDay )
: MessageBox( TodaysDay )

: It returns "Monday"

I will try that. Originally I had set a variable to TODAY, and
it still worked the same. I did not use the SET command though. I will
give that a try.

Thanks.

: Interesting... something with the string to date conversion in DayName call.
: If you turn on the tracing you will see that the second line in your
: script is not executed as you expect it. Here is a copy & paste from
: the 24x7 trace window

: JAL 1: DIM
: JAL 1: Executing DIM("TODAYSDAY", "STRING")
: JAL 2: DAYNAME
: JAL 2: Executing DAYNAME("1/1/1900", "")
: JAL Return "Monday"
: JAL 3: MESSAGEBOX

: Anyway, try the following: Dim(TodaysDay, String)
: Dim(TodaysDate, Date)
: Set(TodaysDate, "12/21/2002")
: DayName( TodaysDate, TodaysDay )
: MessageBox( TodaysDay )

The following 3 lines of code worked perfectly.

Today( TodaysDateI )
Set( TodaysDateII, TodaysDateI )
DayName( TodaysDateII, TodaysDay )

: I will try that. Originally I had set a variable to TODAY, and
: it still worked the same. I did not use the SET command though. I will
: give that a try.

: Thanks.