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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Day of the week from a string Post 302411392 by vgersh99 on Thursday 8th of April 2010 11:23:41 AM
Old 04-08-2010
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Originally Posted by shash
Thanks vgersh99. I think it is working fine except it is just printing the first character. I mean for Sunday, the output is just S. Can you please let me know how to print atleast first 3 characters.

Thanks
Shash
Edited the original post - this assumes the week in your locale starts on Sunday. Change the line in red if/when needed to account for your locale specifics.
 

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INTLCALENDAR.GETFIRSTDAYOFWEEK(3)					 1					 INTLCALENDAR.GETFIRSTDAYOFWEEK(3)

IntlCalendar::getFirstDayOfWeek - Get the first day of the week for the calendars locale

	Object oriented style

SYNOPSIS
public int IntlCalendar::getFirstDayOfWeek (void ) DESCRIPTION
Procedural style int intlcal_get_first_day_of_week (IntlCalendar $cal) The week day deemed to start a week, either the default value for this locale or the value set with IntlCalendar.setFirstDayOfWeek(3). PARAMETERS
o $cal - The IntlCalendar resource. RETURN VALUES
One of the constants IntlCalendar::DOW_SUNDAY, IntlCalendar::DOW_MONDAY, , IntlCalendar::DOW_SATURDAY or FALSE on failure. EXAMPLES
Example #1 IntlCalendar.getFirstDayOfWeek(3) <?php ini_set('date.timezone', 'UTC'); $cal1 = IntlCalendar::createInstance(NULL, 'es_ES'); var_dump($cal1->getFirstDayOfWeek()); // Monday $cal1->set(2013, 1 /* February */, 3); // a Sunday var_dump($cal1->get(IntlCalendar::FIELD_WEEK_OF_YEAR)); // 5 $cal2 = IntlCalendar::createInstance(NULL, 'en_US'); var_dump($cal2->getFirstDayOfWeek()); // Sunday $cal2->set(2013, 1 /* February */, 3); // a Sunday var_dump($cal2->get(IntlCalendar::FIELD_WEEK_OF_YEAR)); // 6 The above example will output: int(2) int(5) int(1) int(6) SEE ALSO
IntlCalendar::setFirstDayOfWeek. PHP Documentation Group INTLCALENDAR.GETFIRSTDAYOFWEEK(3)
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