Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!gideon From: gideon@cs.utexas.edu (Timothy Tin-Wai Chan) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: finding the day of week from the date Message-ID: <1468@ai.cs.utexas.edu> Date: 22 Jun 91 16:17:56 GMT References: Organization: University of Texas at Austin, Dept. of Computer Sciences Lines: 21 In article tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold) writes: >Here is a sample program that finds the day of the week, given the >date. It works for this century only. Making it work for any century >is "left as an exercise to the reader". [...] Can you tell the day of the week by using DOS interrupts? When you use the DOS command DATE, it will say something like: Current date is Sat 6-22-1991 Enter new date (mm-dd-yy): So apparently DOS finds the day of the week itself. The question is, how can I use this facility in DOS? -- "I am immersed in sadness and joy | Timothy T. Chan and your touch brings me pain | gideon@cs.utexas.edu but your tears, Lord | Dept. of CS wash all the shame away" -- Sean Colletta (1991) | U of Texas at Austin