On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 05:45:24AM -0700, Peter Scott wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 01:38:44 +0200, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > Too much work!
> > 
> > $ perl -MDate::Manip -le 'print UnixDate Date_GetPrev("today", "sun"), "%F"'
> 
> Or even
> 
> $ perl -MDate::Manip -le 'print UnixDate ParseDate("last Sunday"), "%F"'

You're right, I just knew there was something along those lines.  In
defence of Date_GetPrev though, it does allow you to control what
happens if you call the sub on a Sunday, should ParseDate not be doing
what is required there.

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