Computing Day of the Week

[erc at khijol.uucp]

From: erc at khijol.UUCP (Edwin R. Carp)
Orga: Deadly Force, Inc., aka Clint Eastwood School of Diplomacy

In article <1503 at utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> battle at alphard.cs.utk.edu (David
Battle) writes: >
>While we're on the subject, what I would like to get my hands on is
the >source to the ctime(3) function and the date(1) program, or some
reasonable >facsimile(s) thereof.  In particular, something that
handles timezones and >daylight savings time.

No, you don't.  I've looked at the source for date(1), and it's
HORRIBLE. Yuck!  You're better off writing your own...

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