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From: aisl@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Lawrence Landry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: date
Keywords: help date script
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Date: 2 May 89 14:54:09 GMT
References: <1814@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: aisl@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Lawrence Landry)
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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.

function weekDay theDate
   convert theDate to dateItems
   put item 7 of theDate into dayNumber
   put "Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday" into wk
   return item dayNumber of wk
end weekDay

Larry Landry
University of Rochester