Off topic, but what would you (merlyn, whomever) do if you didn't have to use core modules? Just curious what y'all prefer for date parsing and formatting. I'd do this...

#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use strict;

use Date::Format;
use Date::Parse;

my $time = str2time('2002-02-21');
my $day_of_wk = time2str("%w", $time);
print "day of week is $day_of_wk\n";

$day_of_wk = time2str("%A", $time);
print "day of week is $day_of_wk\n";
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