Everybody's working for the weekend

Peter asks:

My customer is programming with .NET.

Now he wanted to know if there is a way to determine if a given day in a Calendar is a weekend based on certain culture.

It is “Friday/Saturday” in the Middle East, “Saturday/Sunday” in Europe/Americas and probably something else in somewhere else.

We are trying to find a method similar as IsWeekend(Date d).

Based on my research, this code below will get the first day of week based on the culture.

    CultureInfo myCI = new CultureInfo("en-US");
    MessageBox.Show(myCI.DateTimeFormat.FirstDayOfWeek.ToString());

Is there a similar method for the information about weekend?

Thanks!

Hmmm. Not exactly the same question as the one asked in How many days in a weekend?, but close. And I did hypothesize back in that post from almost a year ago that the weekend was always in LOCALE_SDAYNAME6 and LOCALE_SDAYNAME7. But several people have pointed out that it ain't always so (there are indeed places that consider Sunday to be the first day of the week but Saturday/Sunday to the weekend.

So there really is no way in Windows or the .NET Framework to find out when the weekend is, per locale/culture.

What do you expect from a company with developers who think that working a half day means putting in 12 hours? :-)

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