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From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Day of week routine
Keywords: Does anybody have this?
Message-ID: <8905221444.AA01261@champlain.dgp.toronto.edu>
Date: 22 May 89 14:44:26 GMT
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In article <234@zeek.UUCP> larry@zeek.UUCP (Larry Podmolik) writes:
>I need a C function that, given a date, would return what day of the
>week it fell on.

It's in almost all C libraries and it's called localtime().  Depending on which
format your input date is in, you might want to use the new mktime() function.
I've seen PD mktime()s go by.  I can mail you non-PD versions of these
functions for your personal use if you want.

ajr

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