I don't really know what you mean by this. What database is this for? What "current date function" are you referring to? Most database have some type of "day of the week" function - you supply the date and it tells you what the day of the week is.

For example, Oracle's current date function is SYSDATE. If my perl script did something like: 

   my $dbh = DBI->connect(blah blah)
      or die "Can't connect: $DBI::errstr";
   my $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT SYSDATE FROM DUAL")
      or die "Can't prepare: $DBI::errstr";

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why couldn't you change the perl script to get the day of the week from Oracle - something like this: 
   my $sth = $dbh->prepare(qq{
      SELECT TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'DAY') AS DAY
      FROM DUAL
   }) or die "Can't prepare: $DBI::errstr";

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In Oracle sqlplus, doing "SELECT TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'DAY') AS DAY_OF_THE_WEEK FROM DUAL" produces this: 
   SQL> SELECT TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'DAY') AS DAY
     2        FROM DUAL;

   DAY
   --------
   THURSDAY

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Isn't that what you're looking for?

HTH.

In reply to Re: Testing and database date functions by hmerrill
in thread Testing and database date functions by relax99

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