Day of the Week 



How to compute the day of the week in 6502 assembly.

By Paul Guertin (pg@sff.net), 18 August 2000.







* This routine works for any date from 1900-03-01 to 2155-12-31.

* No range checking is done, so validate input before calling.

*

* I use the formula

*     Weekday = (day + offset[month] + year + year/4 + fudge) mod 7

* where the value of fudge depends on the century.

*

* Input: Y = year (0=1900, 1=1901, ..., 255=2155)

*        X = month (1=Jan, 2=Feb, ..., 12=Dec)

*        A = day (1 to 31)

*

* Output: Weekday in A (0=Sunday, 1=Monday, ..., 6=Saturday)



TMP      EQU $6          ; Temporary storage



WEEKDAY: 

         CPX #3          ; Year starts in March to bypass

         BCS MARCH       ; leap year problem

         DEY             ; If Jan or Feb, decrement year

MARCH    EOR #$7F        ; Invert A so carry works right

         CPY #200        ; Carry will be 1 if 22nd century

         ADC MTAB-1,X    ; A is now day+month offset

         STA TMP

         TYA             ; Get the year

         JSR MOD7        ; Do a modulo to prevent overflow

         SBC TMP         ; Combine with day+month

         STA TMP

         TYA             ; Get the year again

         LSR             ; Divide it by 4

         LSR

         CLC             ; Add it to y+m+d and fall through

         ADC TMP

MOD7     ADC #7          ; Returns (A+3) modulo 7

         BCC MOD7        ; for A in 0..255

         RTS

MTAB     DB 1,5,6,3,1,5,3,0,4,2,6,4   	; Month offsets