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in thread printing element of anonymous array

Just for TIMTOWTDI, Time::gmtime has been in core ~10 years longer:

use Time::gmtime; print gmtime->wday;

But there is a difference: Time::Piece's wday index is 1-based (1=Sunday) while gmtime and Time::gmtime's wday is 0-based (0=Sunday).

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Re^3: printing element of anonymous array
by 1nickt (Canon) on Mar 04, 2018 at 17:24 UTC

    True, but there's a reason Time::Piece was placed in core, and it ain't because Time::gmtime had feature bloat.

    Besides the aforementioned wday(), which provides a one-indexed numerical value for the day of the week, Time::Piece also provides _wday() and day_of_week() for getting the zero-indexed value, as well as fullday() to get the full name of the day, and day() and wdayname() for an abbreviated version of the name.


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