Weekend is an optional parameter – a number or a string used to specify the days of the week that are weekend days and are not considered working days. Weekend is a weekend number or string that specifies when weekends occur. Weekend number values indicate the following weekend days:
Number 1 to 7 for two-day weekends and 11 to 17 for one-day weekends.
Number |
Weekend |
1 or omitted |
Saturday and Sunday |
2 |
Sunday and Monday |
3 |
Monday and Tuesday |
4 |
Tuesday and Wednesday |
5 |
Wednesday and Thursday |
6 |
Thursday and Friday |
7 |
Friday and Saturday |
11 |
Sunday only |
12 |
Monday only |
13 |
Tuesday only |
14 |
Wednesday only |
15 |
Thursday only |
16 |
Friday only |
17 |
Saturday only |
Weekend string provides another way to define the weekly non-working days. It must have seven (7) characters – zeros (0) for working day and ones (1) for non-working day. Each character represents a day of the week, starting with Monday. Only 1 and 0 are valid. “1111111” is an invalid string and should not be used. For example, the weekend string “0000011” defines Saturday and Sunday as non-working days.
Holidays is an optional list of dates that must be counted as non-working days. The list can be given in a cell range.