Re: Last working day of a month

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On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Angelo Zanetti <angelo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am busy trying to figure out how to get the last working day in a month.
>
> I was wondering if there was a script already written, but this is what I
> imagine should work:
>
> Get the current day and see if it's the last day of the month. If its true
> check if it's a Saturday or Sunday if it's either of those 2 days then
> return false else return true?
>
> I also need to take public holidays into account. What would be the best
> solution for that? Store the public holidays in a table and check if the
> current day isn't a public holiday?
>
> Any advice is appreciated.
>
> TIA
> Angelo
>
>

If your application is already using a database, I would use a date
table rather than a holiday table. You can add columns to indicate
whether each date is a workday, weekday, weekend, holiday, or any
other date category/group that you need to track.

Andrew

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