find 6th working day

[JACKWEBS]

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?

[PeejAvery]

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.

[JACKWEBS]

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?

[PeejAvery]

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

[PeejAvery]

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

<?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);
?>

[JACKWEBS]

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...

[PeejAvery]

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

[JACKWEBS]

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