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Working with Dates and Times 13
Determining the day of the year
January 1 is the first day of the year, and December 31 is the last day. But what about all those days in
between? The following formula returns the day of the year for a date stored in cell A1:
=A1-DATE(YEAR(A1),1,0)
The following formula returns the number of days remaining in the year after a particular date (assumed to
be in cell A1):
=DATE(YEAR(A1),12,31)-A1
When you enter either of these formulas, Excel applies date formatting to the cell. You need to apply a nondate
number format to view the result as a number.
To convert a particular day of the year (for example, the 90th day of the year) to an actual date in a specified
year, use the formula that follows. This formula assumes that the year is stored in cell A1 and the day of the
year is stored in cell B1.
=DATE(A1,1,B1)
Determining the day of the week
The WEEKDAY function accepts a date argument and returns an integer between 1 and 7 that corresponds to
the day of the week. The following formula, for example, returns 3 because the first day of the year 2008
falls on a Tuesday:
=WEEKDAY(DATE(2008,1,1))
The WEEKDAY function uses an optional second argument that specifies the day numbering system for the
result. If you specify 2 as the second argument, the function returns 1 for Monday, 2 for Tuesday, and so on.
If you specify 3 as the second argument, the function returns 0 for Monday, 1 for Tuesday, and so on.
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You can also determine the day of the week for a cell that contains a date by applying a custom
number format. A cell that uses the following custom number format displays the day of
the week, spelled out:
dddd
Determining the date of the most recent Sunday
You can use the following formula to return the date for the previous Sunday. If the current day is a Sunday,
the formula returns the current date:
=TODAY()-MOD(TODAY()-1,7)
To modify this formula to find the date of a day other than Sunday, change the 1 to a different number
between 2 (for Monday) and 7 (for Saturday).
Determining the first day of the week after a date
This next formula returns the specified day of the week that occurs after a particular date. For example, use
this formula to determine the date of the first Monday after June 1, 2007. The formula assumes that cell A1
contains a date and cell A2 contains a number between 1 and 7 (1 for Sunday, 2 for Monday, and so on).
=A1+A2-WEEKDAY(A1)+(A2