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Re: days of the week [message #29857 is a reply to message #29849]

Wed, 20 March 2002 14:20

Mark Hadfield
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"Bastienne Schneiter" <b.schneiter@meteonews.ch> wrote in message
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> I need to show a date in a little application. Its format is
> YYYYMMDDHH. But I also have to show to which day of the week this
> date correspond (MON, TUE etc). Does anybody know how to determine
> the day of the week for a given date?

Several solutions to your last question have already been offered, but
if you just want to *show* the day of the week you can use IDL's
calendar format specifiers.

IDL> print, 'Today is', systime(/JULIAN), FORMAT='(A,X,C(CDwA0))'
Today is Thursday

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		Re: days of the week By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 20 March 2002 14:20
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