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From: mead@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: I need a date :) please help
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Date: 7 Apr 90 13:27:15 GMT
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Nf-From: uxh.cso.uiuc.edu!mead    Apr  6 15:56:00 1990


Sorry if you caught this in another group (but then why did you look at
this one?).

I am writing a simulation in which the user will get (simulated)
"memos".  These memos will have embedded symbols which my code shall
have to expand into appropriate dates (eg, @d3 might get expanded to
the string, 'Tuesday April 3, 1990' - the date three days before I'm
writing this note.  Tomorrow, it would be expanded to 'Wednesday April
4, 1990', ...).

QUERY:  Does anyone know of *any* source for an intelligent algorythm
for getting the day ('Monday, Tuesday, ...') from the date (4/3/90).
My PC does it like lightning each time I issue the 'DATE' command, and
if IBM can do it, anyone can - right? :)  Textbooks or whatever are
fine, but please don't direct me to existing software unless it's PD
source code (in BASIC, C, Pascal, or FORTRAN).  Thanks.

-alan mead : mead@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu