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From: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Looking for D.O.W. algorithm
Keywords: weekday
Message-ID: <766@chyde.uwasa.fi>
Date: 17 Sep 89 05:57:59 GMT
References: <6470@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1839@sactoh0.UUCP>
Reply-To: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Organization: U of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <1839@sactoh0.UUCP> brent@sactoh0.UUCP (Brent K. Barrett) writes:
>In article <6470@hubcap.clemson.edu>, chrisb@hubcap.clemson.edu (Chris) writes:
>>   I am looking for an algorithm which gives the day of the week (M,T,W,Th,...)
>> for a given date... (9,15,1989) Sept 15, 1989 --- would be Friday. 

> It's a BIOS call.  Here's a simple C function that returns the

This is a subject that seems to pop up about every weekday:-)  The
bios call only returns the *current* weekday, but for *any* weekday
an algorithm is needed.  For that scan the old news eg in
comp.lang.pascal, or see Dr.Dobbs Journal, June 1989, page 148. 

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