[AccessD] Last Business Day of the Month

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Sat Apr 8 16:23:52 CDT 2023


On 8 Apr 2023 at 14:05, Rocky Smolin wrote:

> If the rule is: last business day of  the month is when the Day of
> Week is not Friday or  Saturday then , I would write a function to
> take the last day of the month and if the day of the week of the last
> day of the month was a Saturday or Sunday, then start subtracting a
> day at a time looking at the day of the week.  When it finds
> Monday-Friday DOW, return that date.
> 
What about when Easter Friday or Monday fall on Mar 31, or a Public Holiday falls on a 
weekend and the Friday or Monday is in lieu or ....

Jim's concept of a Date table is the only really viable way to cover all eventualities.

It can built for a specific year according to specific business rules which take into account 
things like the above.




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