On 14/12/13 16:48, Dan Fitzgerald wrote:
> Kevin: I'd take the month (verifying; gigo), then run it through a case 
> statement to determine the number of days in that month (sounds like a handy 
> subroutine to have in the toolbox). Then I'd convert to get the day of the 
> week, another case statement to get the number of days past Thursday, do the 
> math from the last DOM internal date, oconv the result, and grab a cup of 
> dark roast. There are probably more efficient ways, but that's how I'd work 
> it through my head in an interview.

This is pretty much the same problem as "current week of the year" :-)

Can't remember off the top of my head, but it's *extremely* easy to make
an "off by one" error - I remember someone copying my Pickwiki code and
getting it wrong, introducing the very error I'd fixed.

Cheers,
Wol
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