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Function to find day of any given date.
Hi,
Is there any function in Unix by which v can find the exact day of any given date. Like i need to get Wednesday if i give 05 07 2008 (format MM DD YYYY) Thanks, RRVARMA 
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You can use perl's date and time functions for this:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use POSIX;
$time_t = POSIX::mktime( 0, 0, 0, $ARGV[1], $ARGV[0]-1, $ARGV[2]-1900);
printf "%s\n",strftime("%A",localtime($time_t));
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chk this post:
Get Day of Week from date
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Thanks but..
Hi Annihilannic,
Thanks very much.. but i can't understand anything of the script u hav given..  Actually i dont knw anything of Perl..  Can anybody help me in finding a solution for my above question.. Please.. Once again.. Thanks Annihilannic.. Its my drawback tat i dont knw Perl.. and i want to do it only after i understand.. Please don't feel bad for not accepting ur script.. 
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