Salome Soedergran <salome.soederg...@gmx.ch> writes: > Hi everybody > > How can I make orgmode to give me the weekday of a specific date? > I have a list (org-table) with students' names and dates of birth that looks > like this: > |------+-----------+------+-------+-----+-----+---------| > | Name | Firstname | year | month | day | age | weekday | > |------+-----------+------+-------+-----+-----+---------| > | Doe | John | 2001 | 05 | 21 | 16 | | > |------+-----------+------+-------+-----+-----+---------| > > #+TBLFM: @2$8..@>$6='(+ (- 2017 $5) (if(> $4 7) 0 1));L:: > > I have a formula to make orgtable calculate the age the student > reaches in the current academic year (Aug-July) but I don't know how > to get the birthday's weekday in the current year. Can anybody help > me? Thanks a lot in advance! > > Best, Salome > >
,---- | org-day-of-week is a compiled Lisp function in | ‘../org-mode/lisp/org-clock.el’. | | (org-day-of-week DAY MONTH YEAR) | | Returns the day of the week as an integer. `---- You'll have to translate that into a name: 0 = Sunday ... 6 = Saturday I believe. -- Nick
