Day of the week?

[raf9]

Hello,

Does a function exist that returns the day of the week, like Monday, Tuesday, ecc., of the bar?
Thank you in advance.

[ACM]

Raffaele
Create a date object of the bar time using the getValue("time") function and then use the getDay() method of the Date Object to retrieve the day of the week eg

var  barDate = getValue("time");
var dayOfWeek = barDate.getDay(); 

dayOfWeek will be a value from 0 to 6 where 0 is equal to Sunday, 1 is Monday, etc.
Hope this helps
Alex

[raf9]

Hello Alexis,

Thank you for your responce. That is exactly what I wanted.

[ACM]

Raffaele
Always a pleasure.
You can also write the example I provided in my previous reply as a function which you can easily add to any script where you need to determine the day of the week eg

var dayOfWeek = null;
function getDOW(){  
    if (getBarState()==BARSTATE_NEWBAR && day(0)!=day(-1)) {
        var barDate = getValue("time");
        dayOfWeek = barDate.getDay()
    }    
    return (dayOfWeek);
} 

Then from main() you would simply need to call the function eg

if(getDOW()==3){//if the day of the week is a Wednesday 

Hope this helps
Alex