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Old 12-09-2013
Code Get day of week from epoch time
Need assistance . Below code gives me the date but I wanted output as day of the week (wday) .


Code:
Code:
use Time::Local;
my $time=timelocal(1,2,3,9,11,2013);
$theTime = localtime($time);
print "$theTime\n";

Result:
Code:
Mon Dec  9 03:02:01 2013

Wanted output as only
Code:
Mon

Last edited by ajayram_arya; 12-09-2013 at 12:28 PM..
# 2  
Old 12-09-2013
Code:
use Time::Local;
use POSIX qw(strftime);
my $time=timelocal(1,2,3,9,11,2013);
$theTime = strftime "%a", localtime($time);
print "$theTime\n";

# 3  
Old 12-09-2013
Thank you Akshay Hegde works great . Smilie
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