Path: utzoo!yunexus!maccs!cs3ia3ac
From: cs3ia3ac@maccs.McMaster.CA (Howard Betel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Day-of-week algorithm, please!
Message-ID: <2445@maccs.McMaster.CA>
Date: 17 Apr 89 04:25:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: maccs.2445
References: <19040@adm.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: cs3ia3ac@maccs.UUCP (Howard Betel)
Organization: McMaster U., Hamilton, Ont., Can.
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In article <19040@adm.BRL.MIL> you write:
>I know this isn't quite appropriate to the list, but I really need an
>algorithm that will return the day of the week given today's date.
>Thanx in advance.

I know this is bad programming technique, but one way I implemented
this on a PC was to capture the current date in a variable.  I then
reset the clock to the date I was interested in and pulled the day
of the week right off the computer.  Let it do the work.  Dirty
but effective if it is a date in the future and not before 1984 (or
somewhere there abouts).  If you want more info, I can dig it
out of my program.

BTW Don't forget to reset the date.

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Howard Betel
cs3ia3ac@maccs.McMaster.CA