Casting Day of Week to an integer

[geekodude]

Hello:

I am trying to cast the day of the week to an integer. I would like Sunday = 0, Monday = 1 ... Saturday = 6

I use:

int TheDayOfWeek = (int) DateTime.Now.DayOfWeek;

I am getting an error stating TheDayOfWeek does not exist in the current context.

How do you do this?

Thank you

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hi geekodude, thanks for posting. This snippet works on my end:

int x = (int)DateTime.Now.DayOfWeek;
Print(x);

[geekodude]

Hi Chris:

Thanks for the reply. I just ran your snippet in a script under playback Market Data for the week of 5/7/22 to 5/11/22. I get a value of 5 for the whole session of 5/7/22 to 5/11/22. This makes sense since today is Friday. However, the result is not what is desired.

For example, I want to compare a trading date range in which the user inputs the StartTradingDay = 1 and EndTradingDay.=3 corresponding to trading on Monday through Wednesday. So how would I cast a statement whereby the date corresponds to Market Replay Date? The data output should be 6 for 5/7/22, 0 for 5/8/22 and so on.

Thank you

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hi geekodude, you would want to use the Time[] array to get historical timestamps. DateTime.Now will return the current system time.

Print((int)Time[0].DayOfWeek);

[geekodude]

Perfect, thank you!