Problem with dateItems (Day of the Week)

[pink]

I have a program that converts a timestamp in seconds to dateItems, and then uses item #7 of date items to determine whether it is a weekday or a weekend. The number does not seem to be coming up correctly.

When I convert to dateItems, the date and time appear correctly for the time zone I am currently in, but the day of the week seems to be off. Today for example is Tuesday, but if I take the seconds right now (1443563834) and convert to dateItems I get: 2015,9,29,17,57,14,3

Date is correct, time is correct. According to the dictionary, the number for day of the week should be "2" but I am getting "3".

Am I missing something here?

From the dictionary:

Comments:
The dateItems format is a comma-separated list of numbers:
* the year
* the month number
* the day of the month
* the hour in 24-hour time
* the minute
* the second
* the numeric day of the week where Monday is day 1, Tuesday is day 2, and so forth

[dunbarx]

Hi.

I have always relied on the fact that today, Tuesday, is #3 in item 7 of the dateItems. And so on...

The dictionary entry is the Bizarro version.

Craig Newman

[FourthWorld]

Has this documentation error been submitted to the bug queue?

[dunbarx]

I just actually looked in the dictionary. V, 6.7:

Comments:
The dateItems format is a comma-separated list of numbers:
* the year
* the month number
* the day of the month
* the hour in 24-hour time
* the minute
* the second
* the numeric day of the week where Sunday is day 1, Monday is day 2, and so forth

What version are you looking at?

Craig

[pink]

I'm using 7.1, but I started writing this program back with 7.0.3, it's always said that...

however, when I look at the dictionary entry for "convert" it says the following:

Comments:
If the dateAndTime is a container, the converted date and time is placed in the container, replacing the previous contents. If the dateAndTime is a string, the converted date and time is placed in the it variable.

The dateItems format is a comma-separated list of numbers:
* the year
* the month number
* the day of the month
* the hour in 24-hour time
* the minute
* the second
* the numeric day of the week where Sunday is day 1, Monday is day 2, and so forth

[bn]

Hi,
I just looked it up and this documentation error was introduced in 6.7.3, in 6.7.2 the dictionary says day 1 of the week Sunday.

DateItems for Hypercard and LC always started the week on Sunday as it is custom in the USA.

The ISO Week has Monday as day 1. It is used in many parts of the world.

That is probably where the mix-up comes from.

Kind regards
Bernd

[pink]

this is really rather odd... I switched to a Windows computer, and the dictionary entry for dateItems is correct, but on all of my Macs, the entry is incorrect

anyhow, I'm submitting the bug report

[pink]

it's incorrect on the web version of the dictionary too:

https://livecode.com/resources/api/#liv ... /dateitems

[FourthWorld]

What's the bug report number?

[pink]

16044

http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16044