Re^3: Inscrutable test failure

I think you want to use Date_DayOfWeek then, so something like Date_DayOfWeek(UnixDate(ParseDate('last saturday'),'%m', '%d','%y'))

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Re^4: Inscrutable test failure by dsheroh (Monsignor) on Oct 26, 2007 at 21:49 UTC
What would be the advantage of using that rather than `(localtime ($date))[6]`? The only differences I see, based on the Date::Manip docs, seem to be whether the date is specified in epoch seconds or as m/d/y and whether Sunday is considered to be day 0 or day 7. If there is an advantage, I can definitely switch, but I personally prefer to handle dates internally as epoch times and, in this case, to use `localtime` to get the day of week directly from that value rather than converting the epoch time to m/d/y so that m/d/y can be given to `Date_DayOfWeek`. I suppose I don't want to change it without knowing why I'm changing it.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Inscrutable test failure by eric256 (Parson) on Oct 26, 2007 at 21:53 UTC
Date::Manip promises to return 1-7 mapping to mon-sun. My imperssion was that it will do this regardless of local, timezones, etc. How you get the data to pass wot Date_DayOfWeek doesn't realy matter as far as I can tell though. ___________ Eric Hodges	[reply]