[fpc-pascal] Difficulty with DayOfWeek

[Winfried Bartnick]

Am 19.10.19 um 12:45 schrieb Luca Olivetti:
> El 19/10/19 a les 12:31, Ched ha escrit:
>> Dear All,
>>
>>
>>  From https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/dayofweek.html :
>> DayOfWeek returns the day of the week from DateTime. Sunday is 
>> counted as day 1, Saturday is counted as day 7.
>>
>>  From 
>> http://docs.embarcadero.com/products/rad_studio/delphiAndcpp2009/HelpUpdate2/EN/html/delphivclwin32/DateUtils_DayOfTheWeek.html 
>> :
>> DayOfTheWeek returns a value between 1 and 7, where 1 indicates 
>> Monday and 7 indicates Sunday
>>
>> So, for FPC day 7 is saturday while for Delphi it's sunday... Is it a 
>> bug, a feature. Shouldn't a warning be emitted, or so ?
>>
>> Cheers, Raoul
>
> DayOfWeek is not the same as DayOfTheWeek
>
> http://www.delphibasics.co.uk/RTL.asp?Name=DayOfWeek
>
> Bye



DayOfWeek is for USA

DayOfTheWeek is ISO Standard for the rest of the world.

Cheers Winni