[lug] Perl days/dates

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 04:55:40PM -0700, Atkinson, Chip wrote:
>I'm writing a perl script to figure out the day of the week based on a given
>date.  The numeric value for the day of the week seems rather odd in that

Try:  date +%w --date=2000-11-04

;-)

Sean
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