Crystal Reports: Calculating the Day Number in the Year

This useful function comes from Charliy Nash. This function can calculate the day number in the year. This can be useful in payroll or other date-based systems

Function (datevar tdate)
// DOY - Day of Year
// INPUT: Date to be evaluated
// OUTPUT: Julian day of the year
// Example: DOY(11–Feb-2003) = 42 (tdate - date(year(tdate),1,1))+1 ;

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