WEEKDAY Function

Returns the day of the week from a SAS date value

Category: Date and Time

Syntax

WEEKDAY ( date )

Arguments

date

• specifies a SAS expression that represents a SAS date value.

Details

The WEEKDAY function produces an integer that represents the day of the week, where 1=Sunday, 2=Monday, , 7=Saturday.

Examples

SAS Statements	Results
x=weekday('16mar97'd); put x;	1