ACC: Function to Get Date of Monday Prior to Current Day

ID: Q103138

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft Access versions 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 7.0, 97

SUMMARY

Moderate: Requires basic macro, coding, and interoperability skills.

This article describes a function that you can use to find the date of the Monday prior to the current day.

This article assumes that you are familiar with Visual Basic for Applications and with creating Microsoft Access applications using the programming tools provided with Microsoft Access. For more information about Visual Basic for Applications, please refer to your version of the "Building Applications with Microsoft Access" manual.

NOTE: Visual Basic for Applications is called Access Basic in Microsoft Access versions 1.x and 2.0. For more information about Access Basic, please refer to the "Introduction to Programming" manual in Microsoft Access version 1.x or the "Building Applications" manual in Microsoft Access version 2.0

MORE INFORMATION

The following function determines Monday's date according to the following criteria:

• If the current date is Tuesday through Sunday, it yields the prior Monday's date.
• If the current day is Monday, it returns the current date.
• If the date is Null or is not a valid date, it returns Null.

      Function GetMonDate(CurrentDate)
       If VarType(CurrentDate)<>7 then
         GetMonDate=Null
       Else
         Select Case WeekDay(CurrentDate)
           Case 1       ' Sunday
             GetMonDate=CurrentDate-6
           Case 2       ' Monday
             GetMonDate=CurrentDate
           Case 3 to 7  ' Tuesday..Saturday
             GetMonDate=CurrentDate-WeekDay(CurrentDate)+2
         End Select
       End If
      End Function
  
  

   Print GetMonDate(#4/30/93#)

   #4/26/93#

Keywords          : kbprg
Version           : 1.0 1.1 2.0 7.0 97
Platform          : WINDOWS
Hardware          : x86
Issue type        : kbinfo

Last Reviewed: November 20, 1998