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From: morrell@hpsal2.HP.COM (Michael Morrell)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Day of week routine
Message-ID: <9490003@hpsal2.HP.COM>
Date: 26 May 89 00:48:37 GMT
References: <234@zeek.UUCP>
Organization: HP System Architecture Lab, Cupertino
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/ hpsal2:comp.sources.wanted / rjd@occrsh.ATT.COM (Randy_Davis) /  7:46 am  May 24, 1989 /
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.  Of course, I didn't think to save it at the time.

  Well, this is not C, but it is a cheap and easy shell script that will
do the same, based on the "cal" command.

Randy Davis					UUCP: ...(att!)ocrjd!randy
						      ...(att!)occrsh!rjd
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Nice try, but the script unfortunately relies on each week in cal's output to
have seven numbers in it.  It fails on days in the first week of a month if
it does not start on a Sunday (e.g., try "dow 5 1 89").

   Michael