in reply to getting day of the week

I have one word for you: Date::Calc

Otherwise:

my @days = qw ( Sun Mon Tue Wed Thur Fri Sat );
my $weekday = $days[$wkday];

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—Brad
"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men." George Eliot

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