DAYS.BAS 2/2

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 02-17-93 (16:10)             Number: 256
From: MICHEL BERTLER               Refer#: NONE
  To: RAYMOND KEITH                 Recvd: NO  
Subj: DAYS.BAS 2/2                   Conf: (2) Quik_Bas
Part 2 of DAYS.BAS - continued from last message...

month$(9, 1) = "September": month$(9, 2) = "30"
month$(10, 1) = "October":  month$(10, 2) = "31"
month$(11, 1) = "November": month$(11, 2) = "30"
month$(12, 1) = "December": month$(12, 2) = "31"

DIM DayYearStarted$(14)
' 1 = sunday and 7 = saturday as per the array days$
FOR startday = 1 TO 7
        DayYearStarted$(startday) = days$(startday)
        DayYearStarted$(startday + 7) = days$(startday)
NEXT startday
'1901 started on yeartype 3 and the repeating sequence for yeartypes is :_
 ' 3 45 13 1 2 3 11 6 7 1 9 4 5 6 14 2 3 4 12 7 1 2 10 5 6 7 8
DIM yearsequence(28)
yearsequence(1) = 3     ' if year = 1901 then use yearsequence(1)
yearsequence(2) = 4     ' if year = 1902 then use yearsequence(2)
yearsequence(3) = 5     ' if year = 1903 then use yearsequence(3)
yearsequence(4) = 13
yearsequence(5) = 1:   yearsequence(6) = 2:   yearsequence(7) = 3
yearsequence(8) = 11:  yearsequence(9) = 6:   yearsequence(10) = 7
yearsequence(11) = 1:  yearsequence(12) = 9:  yearsequence(13) = 4
yearsequence(14) = 5:  yearsequence(15) = 6:  yearsequence(16) = 14
yearsequence(17) = 2:  yearsequence(18) = 3:  yearsequence(19) = 4
yearsequence(20) = 12: yearsequence(21) = 7:  yearsequence(22) = 1
yearsequence(23) = 2:  yearsequence(24) = 10: yearsequence(25) = 5
yearsequence(26) = 6:  yearsequence(27) = 7:  yearsequence(28) = 8

year = VAL(RIGHT$(usedate$, 4))    ' determine yeartype
IF year MOD 4 = 0 THEN leap = -1
year = year - 1900: WHILE year > 28: year = year - 28: WEND: whichyeartype_
 = year MOD 29
PointerToDayYearStarted = yearsequence(whichyeartype)
startdayvalue = PointerToDayYearStarted
IF startdayvalue > 7 THEN startdayvalue = startdayvalue - 7: startday$ =_
 DayYearStarted$(PointerToDayYearStarted)

' compute number of days this year
numofcompletemonths = VAL(MID$(usedate$, 1, 2)) - 1
FOR countmonths = 1 TO numofcompletemonths
        numofdays = numofdays + VAL(month$(countmonths, 2)): NEXT countmonths
numofdays = numofdays + VAL(MID$(usedate$, 4, 2))
IF leap THEN
   IF VAL(MID$(usedate$, 1, 2)) > 1 THEN
      IF VAL(MID$(usedate$, 1, 2)) > 2 OR VAL(MID$(usedate$, 4, 2)) > 28 THEN
        numofdays = numofdays + 1
      END IF
   END IF
END IF

whatday = (numofdays MOD 7) - 1
whatday = whatday + startdayvalue
IF whatday > 7 THEN whatday = whatday - 7
thisday$ = days$(whatday)

thismonth$ = month$(VAL(MID$(usedate$, 1, 2)), 1)
calendardate$ = MID$(usedate$, 4, 2)
thisyear$ = RIGHT$(usedate$, 4)

SP$ = SPACE$(22)
PRINT SP$; "Number of days to date is "; numofdays
IF leap AND numofdays > (31 + 28) THEN COLOR 7, 0: PRINT SP$; "     leap"+_
" year counted": COLOR 15, 0
PRINT SP$; "This "; : IF leap THEN PRINT "LEAP ";
PRINT "year started on a "; startday$
PRINT SP$;
IF x$ = "u" OR x$ = "U" THEN
        PRINT "Today is "; thisday$
        PRINT SP$; "Today's date is "; usedate$
ELSE
        PRINT "Chosen date is a "; thisday$
        PRINT SP$; "Chosen date is "; usedate$
END IF
PRINT SP$; "Which translates to:": COLOR 14, 0
PRINT SP$; thisday$ + " " + thismonth$ + " " +
calendardate$ + ", " + thisyear$
PRINT : COLOR 15, 0
PRINT SP$; "Repeat ?   (Y)es   or   (N)o"
x$ = ""
DO: x$ = INKEY$: IF x$ = "Y" OR x$ = "y" OR x$ = "N" OR x$ = "n" THEN EXIT DO
LOOP
IF x$ = "Y" OR x$ = "y" THEN CLEAR : GOTO begin
LOCATE 24, 27: COLOR 25, 0: PRINT "A Quicky by Bill Campbell": LOCATE 25, 79
END

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