[AccessD] Last Business Day of the Month

[John Colby]

Let me comment...

If the wine store is open 465 days of the year, then they are sampling
their wine too heavily....

On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 3:21 PM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think I already know the answer to my question, but thought to ask it
> anyway. Here in North America the last business day of the month is
> typically defined as the last Friday of the month in question. How
> universal is that? Even right here at home, there's a place across the
> street called The Wine Rack, which is open 465 days a year, and 366 every
> four years. In that context, LBDOM() would be equivalent to LDOM(), since
> every day is a business day.
> . I tMy proposed function would require two parameters, a date, defaulting
> to today, and an int describing the offset from LDOM -- here in Canada, my
> Old Age payments arrive on the third last business day of the month, so I'd
> pass 3 as the second parameter.
>
> I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out the best method of allowing the
> user of said function to specify the local rules. It could be a constant; I
> hesitate ever to monkey with the registry. I certainly don't want to have
> to pass this as another parameter. But as I stated above, even the wine
> store across the street has different rules than most of us. Any
> suggestions?
>
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