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RPGIII Get Day of Week Routine (Zeller Conguence)
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RPGIII Get Day of Week Routine (Zeller Conguence) Published by: Bob Cozzi on 22 Dec 2011 view comments(2)

This is the RPGIII source code to calculate the day of the week, using Zeller's Congruence formula:

 

*****************************************************************
      **  Zeller's Congruence in RPGIII by Bob Cozzi, July 2006
      **   (c) 2006 by Bob Cozzi. All rights reserved.
      ***********************************************************
      **  Temp/work fields for calculation
     ITEMPS      IDS
     I                                    B   1   40DAYOWK
     I                                    B   5   80TEMP1
     I                                    B   9  120TEMP2
      **
      ** Put the date into this Data Structure
     IZDATE      IDS
     I                                        1   40NYEAR
     I                                        5   60NMONTH
     I                                        7   80NDAY
      ** Demo date is 23-July-1958 (should be a Wednesday)
     C                     Z-ADD1958      NYEAR
     C                     Z-ADD07        NMONTH
     C                     Z-ADD23        NDAY
     C                     EXSR ZDAY
     C                     MOVE *ON       *INLR
      ***********************************************************
      **  This subroutine calculates the day of the week using
      **  Zeller's congruence.
      **  --Converted to RPGIII by Bob Cozzi, July 2006
      **   (c) 2006 by Bob Cozzi. All rights reserved.
      **  Permission to use for any purpose is hereby granted
      **  provided credit to the copyright holder is included.
      **
      **  Input fields:
      **   zDate  Date in YYYYMMDD format
      **     nDay   Day of month
      **     nYear  Year
      **     nMonth Month
      ***********************************************************
     CSR         ZDAY      BEGSR
      **  If the month Jan or Feb, then adjust it to fit the algorythm.
      **  Also subtract 1 from the year in this situation.
     C           NMONTH    IFLT 3
     C                     ADD  12        NMONTH
     C                     SUB  1         NYEAR
     C                     ENDIF
      **
      **  Perform Zeller's formula to calculate the day of the week.
     C           NMONTH    MULT 13        TEMP1
     C                     ADD  3         TEMP1
     C                     DIV  5         TEMP1
     C                     ADD  NDAY      TEMP1
     C                     ADD  NYEAR     TEMP1
     C           NYEAR     DIV  4         TEMP2
     C                     ADD  TEMP2     TEMP1
      **
     C           NYEAR     DIV  100       TEMP2
     C                     SUB  TEMP2     TEMP1
     C           NYEAR     DIV  400       TEMP2
     C                     ADD  TEMP2     TEMP1
     C                     DIV  7         TEMP1
     C                     MVR            DAYOWK
      **
      **  At this point, we have the day of the week from Zeller.
      **  However, it is zero-based (Mon=0, Tues=1, Wed=3... etc.)
      **  This procedure is designed to return ones-based values
      **  as follows:  (Sun=1, Mon=2, Tues=3... etc.)
      **
      **  We need to convert the result from Zeller, as follows:
      **      If day is greater than 5, subtract 5 from the day.
      **      Otherwise, increase the day by 2.
      **      For example: Sun=6 so 6 - 5 = 1
      **                   Mon=0 so 0 + 2 = 2
      **                   Tue=1 so 1 + 2 = 3
      **                   Wed=2 so 2 + 2 = 4
      **                   Thu=3 so 3 + 2 = 5
      **                   Fri=4 so 4 + 2 = 6
      **                   Sat=5 so 5 + 2 = 7
      **
      **  If you prefer 0=Monday based return value, simply delete
      **  the code upto but NOT including the RETURN opcode.
     C           DAYOWK    IFGT 5
     C                     SUB  5         DAYOWK
     C                     ELSE
     C                     ADD  2         DAYOWK
     C                     ENDIF
     CSR         ENDZDY    ENDSR
 

 

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Posted by: neilrh
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Jackson, MI
Comment on: RPGIII Get Day of Week Routine (Zeller Conguence)
Posted: 12 years 3 months 28 days 2 hours 57 minutes ago

Wow, 2006 and still using RPGIII!  Though I'm guessing from the last comment line that there was some thought given to making it an RPGIV procedure Laughing

Posted by: bobcozzi
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Chicagoland
Comment on: RPGIII Get Day of Week Routine (Zeller Conguence)
Posted: 12 years 3 months 28 days 1 hours 54 minutes ago
Edited: Thu, 22 Dec, 2011 at 15:49:56 (4501 days ago)

Haha, yes the shop I was consulting in needed RPGIII day of the week.

Originally we called an RPG IV program and did the CEExxxx thing. But then I found Zeller's formula and wanted to convert it to RPG. Since we don't really need it in RPG IV (at the time) I thought why not write it in RPGIII for the poor old bastards using III. Hence the subroutine.

Turns out to be one of my more widely-used routines (sadly). I'm archiving it here for future googler's or whatever displaces google, to find it.