find 6th working day

Any ideas on how I can find the 6th working day of each month?
I don't want to put in a check for if Monday, else if Tuesday advance 1 day, etc. although maybe this is the only way?

In what language are you planning to implement this? If PHP, you can easily do this using date() and mktime().

Pay good attention to example #1 (4th implementation) of the date() page.

Yes, but date() doesn't have a built in check for working days.
I assume I am going to have to code and check the actual day:
if day == 6 and saturday or sunday then day++
then do a recursive loop until it equals monday-Friday?

EDIT: Ah, only Mon-Fri. You will have to do an if statement for that.

Here is a quick implementation I just wrote up. This should work for you.

PHP Code:

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<?php
function sixthDay($m, $y) {
  $n = 0;
  for ($d = 1; $d <= date('t', mktime(0, 0, 0, $m, 1, $y)); $d++) {
    $tempDate = date('l', mktime(0, 0, 0, $m, $d, $y));
    if ($tempDate !== 'Saturday' && $tempDate !== 'Sunday') {$n++;}
    if ($n == 6) {break;}
  }
  return $tempDate;
}

echo sixthDay(6, 2008);
?>

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Example #1 doesn't have any working day code in it ?
There is some working day code further down but only to find the number of working days in a month, which is a calculation...

We posted at the same time. Read my last post.

Perfect. Thanks very much.
I'll make some slight alterations to get the day numbers...