[AccessD] Last Business Day of the Month

[Arthur Fuller]

Jim,

You are totally right, and it would appear that this can only be handled
using a lookup table, which sort of defeats the idea of a function that can
do it, since said function would depend upon said table. In finite cases
such as LDOM, no table is required, just a simple array, but yeah,
factoring in all these federal, state/provincial, and city holidays, does
complicate the matter. Pride Day, and such... the list goes on and on and
on and on...

On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 1:30 PM James Button via AccessD <
accessd at databaseadvisors.com> wrote:

> You did not mention the considerations of:
> Bank holidays
> Public holidays
> Banking days
> Religious holidays
> And local variation of those - as in state and for those wanting to
> confuse - such things as the different ones in the countries of the UK -
>
> JimB
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AccessD <accessd-bounces+jamesbutton=
> blueyonder.co.uk at databaseadvisors.com> On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
> Sent: Sunday, April 9, 2023 11:16 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving <
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> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Last Business Day of the Month
>
> 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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Arthur