On Sun, 27 May 2001 10:02:06 +0100, Graham Barr said:
> Um, If you have the date as a time value (There are several parsers out there to
> do this) You can do (localtime($time))[6] to get the day of the week
Sure, if you want to limit yourself to the range 1970 - 2038, which is hardly
the most interesting range, historically speaking.
>
> Graham.
>
> On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:02:51AM -0400, Rich Bowen wrote:
> > In preparation for my talk at YAPC, I was trying to figure out what day of the
> > week a given date was on, and could not find a simple module to do this. Yes,
> > I'm sure Date::Manip does it somewhere in there. It does anything. But I was
> > looking for something a little more lightweight and easy to talk about.
> >
> > I just uploaded Date-DayOfWeek, which contains Date::DayOfWeek and
> > Date::Doomsday, which calculate the day of the week of any given date, and the
> > doomsday of any given year, respectively.
> >
> > doomsday is an idea invented by Dr John Conway, which makes it really easy to
> > figure out the day of the week of any date, by calculating a doomsday - a
> > particular day of the week - which is somehow "special" in a particular year.
> >
> > More information at http://www.interlog.com/~r937/doomsday.html in case you
> > care.
> >
> > I uploaded Date::Doomsday earlier this evening, but will probably be removing
> > it here shortly, since it is included in this other distribution.
> >
> > --
> > Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > As we trace our own few circles around the sun
> > We get it backwards and our seven years go by like one
> > Dog Years (Rush - Test for Echo - 1999)
> >
> >
>
>
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