Has anyone else out in the cloisters had trouble with the Date::Day module? All I want is a three character representation of the day in the week for a corresponding date, Seems like a job for Date::day doesn't it?! So why do I NEVER get the correct day back? Here's a wee noddy script that I knocked up to test this module when the results from the big script containing this module reported rubbish! 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
 
###############################################################
# Extra Modules should be declared here.                      #
# All these modules MUST be found on the server attempting to #
# call this script.                                           #
###############################################################
 
use strict ;                                         # Enforce private
+ variables
use Date::Day ;                                      # Returns the act
+ual day of a date

###############################################################
# Set up variables                                            #
###############################################################
# Date and time variables for headings in Emails/files etc.   #
###############################################################
 
my ($day, $mon, $year) = (localtime) [3,4,5] ;
my $date   = sprintf("%02d/%02d/%04d", $day, $mon +=1, $year += 1900);
 
my $today  = undef ;
 
#####################

print "\n\t\t*** test_day starts ***\n" ;

$day = '9' ;
$mon = '8' ;
$year = '2005' ;

print "\n\t\tDay  :: $day" ;
print "\n\t\tMon  :: $mon" ;
print "\n\t\tYear :: $year\n" ;

$today = &day($day,$mon,$year) ;

print "\n\t\tToday is a $today\n" ;

print "\n\t\t*** test_day ends  ***\n" ;

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According to the Date::Day the 9th of August 2005 is a THU! Have I done something mind blowingly stupid? I've looked and looked and can see nothing wrong with my code, any ideas? Cheers, Ronnie
PS Using the current date from localtime - the result is that today is a TUE???????????

In reply to Date::Day problem?! by Ronnie

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