[lug] Perl days/dates

[Atkinson, Chip]

Yes, this returns 6, Saturday.  In my script, the value returned is 1 !

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Reifschneider [mailto:jafo at tummy.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 5:03 PM
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> Subject: Re: [lug] Perl days/dates
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> 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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