What?
This is a very quick note with the code to retrieve the full day name from a date (eg. "Monday").

Why?
If I use the toString() function to get the day, it only returns the first 3 letters of the day (eg. "Mon").
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My_Date = today;
Day_Name = My_Date.toString("E");  // returns "Mon"
  1.  My_Date = today
  2.  Day_Name = My_Date.toString("E");  // returns "Mon" 
How?
Category: Zoho :: Article: 653

What?
This is a very quick note with the code to determine the English ordinal of a date (eg. "st" of "1st"). So in a date, instead of "Tuesday, 6 November 2018", I could want "Tuesday 6th of November 2018".

Why?
Well there's a long a way to do it (but reliable). But being limited to the lines of code you can run (ref. "Maximum number of executable statements", anything that reduces the number of lines used would be an improvement. This is how I was doing it previously.
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// get the date (eg. 1, 2, 3, ... 29, 30, 31)
	This_Day_Date = My_Date_Field.toString("d");

	// determine English ordinal
	English_Ordinal = "th ";
	if(This_Day_Date == "1" || This_Day_Date == "21" || This_Day_Date == "31")
	{
		English_Ordinal = "st ";
	}
	if(This_Day_Date == "2" || This_Day_Date == "22")
	{
		English_Ordinal = "nd ";
	}
	if(This_Day_Date == "3" || This_Day_Date == "23")
	{
		English_Ordinal = "rd ";
	}

	// display
	info My_Date.toString("d") + English_Ordinal;
  1.  // get the date (eg. 1, 2, 3, ... 29, 30, 31) 
  2.      This_Day_Date = My_Date_Field.toString("d")
  3.   
  4.      // determine English ordinal 
  5.      English_Ordinal = "th "
  6.      if(This_Day_Date == "1" || This_Day_Date == "21" || This_Day_Date == "31") 
  7.      { 
  8.          English_Ordinal = "st "
  9.      } 
  10.      if(This_Day_Date == "2" || This_Day_Date == "22") 
  11.      { 
  12.          English_Ordinal = "nd "
  13.      } 
  14.      if(This_Day_Date == "3" || This_Day_Date == "23") 
  15.      { 
  16.          English_Ordinal = "rd "
  17.      } 
  18.   
  19.      // display 
  20.      info My_Date.toString("d") + English_Ordinal; 

How?
Category: Zoho :: Article: 655

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