Hi, I am trying to convert a date into a weekday without using any extermal modules (modules that don't normally come with perl by default). Basically, I would like to feed a function a string like "01-23-2004" and have it return the weekday that the date falls on. I know that I can issue a statement like this: 
my ($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $month, $year, $wday, $isdst) = localtim
+e(time);
return $wday;

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... but, this function does not allow me to enter custom values for dates. Yes, I know that I can subtract or add the number of seconds in a day times the number of days difference from the current day to have it return a value other than the current day. (ex. localtime(time + (68400 * 2))). However, this becomes difficult if I want to find the weekday of a day far into the future. (since I would have to calculate the number of days between the target date and the current date). Is there a simpler way to find the weekday from a date string without a module? If anyone has any input, I would be very greatful. Thanks for taking the time to read this. Joe

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