I want to get the day of the week (in word format) like my $time = localtime; does.

Using the example from the docs on localtime 

  my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) =
                                                localtime(time);

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It produces it in numeric form instead of saying Tue for tuesday.

My first question is why would saving it as a variable $time make it in text when breaking it apart put it into numerics?

Second question is, is the only way to convert the time so I can get the word day of the week the following? 

 if     ($wkday = 0) {$day = "Sun";}
 elsif  ($wkday = 1) {$day = "Mon";}

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I don't see why that'd be the only quick way to do it when it prints the days of the week if you first save it all to a variable.

In reply to getting day of the week by Anonymous Monk

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