weekdays calculation

[ConfusedMay]

Could someone please help.... ? below are my code on how to create indate and outdate.

                          If Not IsNull(rst2.Fields("Days_Required")) Then
                            days = rst2.Fields("Days_Required")
                            
                        End If

                       enddate = rst2.Fields("FinalDate")
                       If days = 0 Then
                            startdate = enddate
                        Else
                           startdate = DateAdd("w", -days, enddate)
                        
                        End If

the calculation for startdate and enddate are correct according to days required. the problem is that it calculates weekend as well. for example: enddate is 1/27/09, it required to works for 8 days, then the start date should be enddate - 8 days (exclude weekend sat and sun) = 1/16/09, but the code is giving me 1/20/09 as startdate.
Can someone help me?? I thought "w" is for weekdays only

[ChipR]

Quoted from another thread:
WEEKDAY is just the numerical representation of each day (Sunday=1, Monday=2, ..., Saturday=7), but includes ALL days of the week (doesn't exclude weekends). I believe that you want WORKDAY.

Unfortunately, Workday is not a function that exists in Access. I think there was a thread not too long ago where someone wrote it though.

[ChipR]

http://bytes.com/topic/access/answers/848090-add-business-days-workday-calculations

Post #3 by NeoPa

[ADezii]

Here is some code I wrote a short time ago, that will allow you to calculate workdays minus Weekends and Holidays. It may/may not be helpful to you. Refer specifically to Post #9.

http://bytes.com/topic/access/answers/856291-calculate-date-differences-excluding-holidays-