Since some of us (me included *do* hear the day of the week with Insert+F12 twice, I think the answer is in the control panel, under regional settings then standards and format/customize/Date page. I believe there you can dictate the default date format. I'm using XP pro by the way. Dave Composed on a Dell Latitude 630 in the general vicinity of my Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Francisco Bay Area. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ian D. Nichols To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 13:15 Subject: Re: day of the week Hi Robert, What you are asking – the day of the week as compared with the current date – is not readily available. When I press JAWS key + F12 twice with JAWS 12, I get only the day, month and year, not the day of the week. In fact, to get the day of the week for any date that you choose randomly, would I think need a program specially developped to do that. One may well exist, but I am not acquainted with it. The GetLocalTime function will fill a systemtime structure with information about the current moment, and that includes the day of the week. I hope that this helps at least a bit. All the best, Ian Ian D. Nichols, Toronto, Canada From: Robert Logue Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 3:38 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: day of the week How do I get Jaws and Windows xp to tell me the day of the week? It's fine to have the date but I'd also like to know what day any calendar date is. Bob