in reply to how to find out the date 'Tuesday' for this week

Date::Calc is your friend! All hail Date::Calc.

Here is a quick example I just tried (Monday of this week):
perl -e 'use Date::Calc qw(:all);print join(",",Monday_of_Week(Week_of +_Year(Today))) . "\n"'


-pete
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