in reply to Day of week for an arbitary date using core modules

The new Time::Piece interface works very well for this... (though its a "future core module" rather than a current one) 
#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use strict;

use Time::Piece;
my ($year, $month, $day) = qw(2002 02 21);

my $t = Time::Piece->strptime("$year/$month/$day", "%Y/%m/%d");

print "day of week is " . $t->day_of_week . "\n";
print "day of week is " . $t->day . "\n";

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Re: Re: Day of week for an arbitary date using core modules
by davorg (Chancellor) on Feb 22, 2002 at 07:22 UTC

    Last I read, Time::Piece wasn't going to be added to the core. Don't know why, but it's a shame because it's a fine module.

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