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                 [$Date: 2022-06-05 12:40:11 +0200 (So, 05. Jun 2022) $
                  KOMA-Script guide (chapter: scrdate)]
\translator{Markus Kohm\and Gernot Hassenpflug\and Karl Hagen}

\chapter{The Day of the Week with \Package{scrdate}}
\labelbase{scrdate}
\BeginIndexGroup
\BeginIndex{Package}{scrdate}

Originally, the \Package{scrdate} package could only give the day of the week
for the current date. Nowadays, it offers this and more for any date in the
Gregorian calendar.

\begin{Declaration}
  \Macro{CenturyPart}\Parameter{year}\\%
  \Macro{DecadePart}\Parameter{year}%
\end{Declaration}%
The\ChangedAt{v3.05a}{\Package{scrdate}} \Macro{CenturyPart} command returns
the value of the century digits\,---\,thousands and hundreds\,---\,of a
\PName{year}. The \Macro{DecadePart} command, on the other hand, gives the
value of the remaining digits, i.\,e. the tens and the units. The
\PName{year} can have any number of digits. You can assign the value directly
to a counter or use it for calculations with
\Macro{numexpr}\IndexCmd{numexpr}. To output\textnote{Attention!} it as an
Arabic number, you should prefix it with \Macro{the}\IndexCmd{the}.

\begin{Example}
  You want to calculate and print the century of the current year.
\begin{lstcode}
  The year \the\year\ is year \the\DecadePart{\year}
  of the \engord{\numexpr\CenturyPart{\year}+1\relax} century.
\end{lstcode}
  The result would be:
  \begin{ShowOutput}
    The year \the\year\ is year \the\DecadePart{\year}
    of the \engordnumber{\numexpr\CenturyPart{\year}+1\relax} century.
  \end{ShowOutput}
  This example uses the \Package{engord}\IndexPackage{engord} package.
  See \cite{package:engord} for more information.
\end{Example}

Note\textnote{Attention!} that the counting method used here treats the year
2000 as year~0\,---\,and therefore the first year\,---\,of the 21st~century.
If necessary, however, you can make a correction with \Macro{numexpr}, as
shown for the ordinal number in the example.%
\EndIndexGroup


\begin{Declaration}
  \Macro{DayNumber}\Parameter{year}\Parameter{month}\Parameter{day}\\%
  \Macro{ISODayNumber}\Parameter{ISO-date}%
\end{Declaration}%
These\ChangedAt{v3.05a}{\Package{scrdate}} two commands return the value of
the day-of-the-week\Index{day&gt;of the week} number for any date. They differ
only in the method of specifying the date. While the \Macro{DayNumber} command
requires the \PName{year}, \PName{month}, and \PName{day} as separate
parameters, the \Macro{ISODayNumber} command expects an \PName{ISO-date} as a
single argument, \PName{ISO-date}, using the ISO notation
\PName{year}\texttt{-}\PName{month}\texttt{-}\PName{day}. It does not matter
if the \PName{month} or \PName{day} have one or two digits. You can use the
result of both commands to assign directly to a counter or for calculations
using \Macro{numexpr}\IndexCmd{numexpr}. To print\textnote{Attention!} it as
an Arabic number, you should prefix it with \Macro{the}\IndexCmd{the}.

\begin{Example}
  You want to know the number of the day of the week of the 1st~May~2027.
\begin{lstcode}
  The 1st~May~2027 has \the\ISODayNumber{2027-5-1}
  as the number of the day of the week.
\end{lstcode}
  The result will be:
  \begin{ShowOutput}
    The 1st~May~2027 has \the\ISODayNumber{2027-5-1}
    as the number of the day of the week.
  \end{ShowOutput}
\end{Example}

It is particularly worth noting that you can even step a specified number of
days into the future or or the past from a given date.
\begin{Example}
  You want to know the number of the day of the week 12~days from now
  and 24~days before the 24th~December~2027.
\begin{lstcode}
  In 12~days, the number of the day of the week
  will be \the\DayNumber{\year}{\month}{\day+12}, and
  24~days before the 24th~December~2027 it will be
  \the\ISODayNumber{2027-12-24-24}.
\end{lstcode}
  The result could be, for example:
  \begin{ShowOutput}
    In 12~days, the number of the day of the week
    will be \the\DayNumber{\year}{\month}{\day+12}, and
    24~days before the 24th~December~2027 it will be
    \the\ISODayNumber{2027-12-24-24}.
  \end{ShowOutput}
\end{Example}

The days of the week are numbered as follows: Sunday\,=\,0, Monday\,=\,1,
Tuesday\,=\,2, Wednesday\,=\,3, Thursday\,=\,4, Friday\,=\,5, and
Saturday\,=\,6.%
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\EndIndexGroup


\begin{Declaration}
  \Macro{DayNameByNumber}\Parameter{number of the day of the week}\\%
  \Macro{DayName}\Parameter{year}\Parameter{month}\Parameter{day}\\%
  \Macro{ISODayName}\Parameter{ISO-date}%
\end{Declaration}%
Usually\ChangedAt{v3.05a}{\Package{scrdate}} you are less interested in the
number of the day of the week than in its name. Therefore, the
\Macro{DayNameByNumber} command returns the name of the day of the week
corresponding to a day-of-the-week number. This number can be the result, for
example, of \Macro{DayNumber} or \Macro{ISODayNumber}. The two commands
\Macro{DayName} and \Macro{ISODayName} directly return the name of the day of
the week of a given date.

\begin{Example}
  You want to know the name of the day of the week of the 24th~December~2027.
\begin{lstcode}
  Please pay by \ISODayName{2027-12-24},
  24th~December~2027 the amount of \dots.
\end{lstcode}
  The result will be:
  \begin{ShowOutput}
    Please pay by \ISODayName{2027-12-24},
    24th~December~2027 the amount of \dots.
  \end{ShowOutput}
\end{Example}

Once again, it is particularly worth noting that you can perform calculations,
to a certain extent:
\begin{Example}
  You want to know the names of the day of the week 12~days from now
  and 24~days before the 24th~December~2027.
\begin{lstcode}
  In 12~days, the name of the day of the week
  will be \DayName{\year}{\month}{\day+12}, and
  24~days before the 24th~December~2027 it will be
  \ISODayName{2027-12-24-24}, while two weeks
  and three days after a Wednesday will be a
  \DayNameByNumber{3+2*7+3}.
\end{lstcode}
  The result could be, for example:
  \begin{ShowOutput}
    In 12~days, the name of the day of the week
    will be \DayName{\year}{\month}{\day+12}, and
    24~days before the 24th~December~2027 it will be
    \ISODayName{2027-12-24-24}, while two weeks
    and three days after a Wednesday will be a
    \DayNameByNumber{3+2*7+3}.
  \end{ShowOutput}
\end{Example}%
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\EndIndexGroup


\begin{Declaration}
  \Macro{ISOToday}%
  \Macro{IsoToday}%
  \Macro{todaysname}%
  \Macro{todaysnumber}%
\end{Declaration}%
In the previous examples, the current date was always specified cumbersomely
using the \TeX{} registers \Macro{year}\IndexCmd{year},
\Macro{month}\IndexCmd{month}, and \Macro{day}\IndexCmd{day}. The
\Macro{ISOToday}\ChangedAt{v3.05a}{\Package{scrdate}} and \Macro{IsoToday}
commands directly return the current date in ISO-notation. These commands
differ only in the fact that \Macro{ISOToday} always outputs a two-digit month
and day, while \Macro{IsoToday} outputs single-digit numbers for values less
than 10. The \Macro{todaysname} command directly returns the name of the
current day of the week, while \Macro{todaysnumber} returns the number of the
current day of the week. You can find more information about using this value
in the explanations of \DescRef{scrdate.cmd.DayNumber} and
\DescRef{scrdate.cmd.ISODayNumber}.

\begin{Example}
  I want to show you on what day of the week this document was typeset:
\begin{lstlisting}
  This document was created on a \todaysname.
\end{lstlisting}
  This will result, for example, in:
  \begin{ShowOutput}
    This document was created on a \todaysname.
  \end{ShowOutput}
\end{Example}

For languages that have a case system for nouns, note that the package cannot
decline words. The terms are given in the form appropriate for displaying a
date in a letter, which is the nominative singular for the currently supported
languages. Given this limitation, the example above will not work correctly if
translated directly into some other languages.

\begin{Explain}
  The\textnote{Hint!} names of the weekdays in \Package{scrdate} all have
  initial capital letters. If you need the names completely in lower case, for
  example because that is the convention in the relevant language, simply wrap
  the command with the \LaTeX{} \Macro{MakeLowercase}\IndexCmd{MakeLowercase}%
  \important{\Macro{MakeLowercase}} command:
  % Umbruchkorrektur: listings
\begin{lstcode}
  \MakeLowercase{\todaysname}
\end{lstcode}
  This converts the whole argument into lower-case letters. Of course, you can
  also do this for
  \DescRef{scrdate.cmd.DayNameByNumber}\IndexCmd{DayNameByNumber},
  \DescRef{scrdate.cmd.DayName}\IndexCmd{DayName}, and
  \DescRef{scrdate.cmd.ISODayName}\IndexCmd{ISODayName} commands described
  above.%
\end{Explain}%
\EndIndexGroup


\begin{Declaration}
  \Macro{nameday}\Parameter{name}
\end{Declaration}%
Just as you can directly modify the output of \Macro{today} with
\DescRef{maincls.cmd.date}\IndexCmd{date}, so you can change the output of
\DescRef{scrdate.cmd.todaysname} to \PName{name} with \Macro{nameday}.
\begin{Example}
  You change the current date to a fixed value using
  \DescRef{maincls.cmd.date}. You are not interested in the actual name of the
  day, but want only to show that it is a workday. So you write:
\begin{lstlisting}
  \nameday{workday}
\end{lstlisting}
  After this, the previous example will result in:
  \begin{ShowOutput}\nameday{workday}
    This document was created on a \todaysname.
  \end{ShowOutput}
\end{Example}
There's no corresponding command to change the result of
\DescRef{scrdate.cmd.ISOToday}\IndexCmd{ISOToday} or
\DescRef{scrdate.cmd.IsoToday}\IndexCmd{IsoToday}.%
\EndIndexGroup


\begin{Declaration}
  \Macro{newdaylanguage}\Parameter{language}%
                        \Parameter{Monday}\Parameter{Tuesday}%
                        \Parameter{Wednesday}\Parameter{Thursday}%
                        \Parameter{Friday}\Parameter{Saturday}
                        \Parameter{Sunday}%
\end{Declaration}
Currently the \Package{scrdate} package recognizes the following languages:
\begin{itemize}\setlength{\itemsep}{.5\itemsep}
\item Croatian (\PValue{croatian}),
\item Czech (\PValue{czech}\ChangedAt{v3.13}{\Package{scrdate}}),
\item Danish (\PValue{danish}),
\item Dutch (\PValue{dutch}),
\item English (\PValue{american}\ChangedAt{v3.13}{\Package{scrdate}},
  \PValue{australian}, \PValue{british}, \PValue{canadian}, \PValue{english},
  \PValue{UKenglish}, and USenglish),
\item Finnish (\PValue{finnish}),
\item French (\PValue{acadian}, \PValue{canadien},
  \PValue{francais}\ChangedAt{v3.13}{\Package{scrdate}}, and \PValue{french}),
\item German (\PValue{austrian}\ChangedAt{v3.08b}{\Package{scrdate}},
  \PValue{german}, \PValue{naustrian}, \PValue{ngerman},
  \PValue{nswissgerman}, and
  \PValue{swissgerman}\ChangedAt{v3.13}{\Package{scrdate}}),
\item Italian (\PValue{italian}),
\item Norwegian (\PValue{norsk}),
\item Polish (\PValue{polish}\ChangedAt{v3.13}{\Package{scrdate}}),
\item Slovak (\PValue{slovak}),
\item Spanish (\PValue{spanish}),
\item Swedish (\PValue{swedish}).
\end{itemize}
You can also configure it for additional languages. To do so, the first
argument of \Macro{newdaylanguage} is the name of the language, and the other
arguments are the names of the corresponding days of the week.

In the current implementation, it does not matter whether you load
\Package{scrdate} before or after \Package{ngerman}\IndexPackage{ngerman},
\Package{babel}\IndexPackage{babel}, or similar packages. In each case the
correct language will be used provided it is supported.

\begin{Explain}
  To be more precise, as long as you select a language in a way that is
  compatible with \Package{babel}\IndexPackage{babel}, \Package{scrdate} will
  use the correct language. If this is not the case, you will get (US) English
  names.
\end{Explain}

Of course, if you create definitions for a language that was previously
unsupported, please mail them to the author of \KOMAScript{}. There is a good
chance that future versions of \KOMAScript{} will add support for that
language.%
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