[AccessD] Last Business Day of the Month

Arthur Fuller fuller.artful at gmail.com
Sun Apr 9 17:15:51 CDT 2023


LOL. That was me, not the store. Good catch.😀

On Sun, Apr 9, 2023 at 12:49 PM John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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