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From: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Day of Week Algorithm
Message-ID: <790@chyde.uwasa.fi>
Date: 26 Sep 89 07:58:13 GMT
References: <6570@hubcap.clemson.edu> <676@thor.wright.EDU>
Reply-To: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Organization: U of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <676@thor.wright.EDU> bkottman@wright.EDU (Brett Kottmann) writes:
>in article <6570@hubcap.clemson.edu>, bo@hubcap.clemson.edu (Bo Slaughter) says:
>> Does anyone out there have a day of the week algorithm in pascal?
>
>	Turbo Pascal has one built in,

Now really!?  Would you please divulge which *built in* Turbo Pascal
function gives the general day of the week.  GetDate does it for the
current date, only.  (Please do not suggest changing the system
date.  It only covers 1980-2079, is destructive in multitasking, and
bad programming anyway.)

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