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From: stone@hydra.unm.edu (Andrew Stone CS.DEPT)
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Subject: Re: date
Keywords: help date script
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Date: 29 Apr 89 22:47:07 GMT
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In article <1814@blake.acs.washington.edu> mm@blake.acs.washington.edu (Eric Gorr) writes:
>Hello, I was wonding if anyone had a script, XMCD, etc.. that if I were to
>tell it (format doesn't matter) 4/27/89 it would tell me that it was a 
>thursday.

Try this:

function getDayOfWeek myDate
  convert myDate to long date
  return first item of myDate
end getDayOfWeek

example: put getDayOfWeek(2/12/56)
returns: Sunday

andrew

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