Greetings,

I seem to be able to get just about any Date calculation I need except calculating for example the first day of the month or the first monday of the month.

Date::Calc has this fuction:

Monday_of_Week ($year,$month,$day) = Monday_of_Week($week,$year);

then it states

In case you do not understand this, never mind, but then simply DO NOT USE this function in scalar context!
($year,$month,$day) = Monday_of_Week($week,$year);
This function returns the date of the first day of the given week, i.e., the Monday. "$year" must be greater than or equal to "1", and "$week" must lie in the range "1" to "Weeks_in_Year($year)".
Note that you can write "($year,$month,$day) = Monday_of_Week(Week_of_Year($year,$month,$day));" in order to calculate the date of the Monday of the same week as the given date. If you want to calculate any other day of week in the same week as a given date, use

OK How do I use this? Can any one give me a real life example of this function or something that will return the first day of the month.

Thanks for any help.

Tim

In reply to getting the First day of the month by Anonymous Monk

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