NAME Time::DayOfWeek - calculate which Day-of-Week a date is VERSION This documentation refers to version 1.6.A6FFxZB of Time::DayOfWeek, which was released on Tue Jun 15 15:59:35:11 2010. SYNOPSIS #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Time::DayOfWeek qw(:dow); my($year, $month, $day)=(2003, 12, 7); print "The Day-of-Week of $year/$month/$day (YMD) is: ", DayOfWeek($year, $month, $day), "\n"; print 'The 3-letter abbreviation of the Dow is: ', Dow( $year, $month, $day), "\n"; print 'The 0-based index of the DoW is: ', DoW( $year, $month, $day), "\n"; DESCRIPTION This module just calculates the Day-of-Week for any particular date. It was inspired by the clean Time::DaysInMonth module written by David Muir Sharnoff . 2DO - What else does DayOfWeek need? PURPOSE The reason I created DayOfWeek was to support other Time modules which would like to have a Day-of-Week calculated. USAGE DoW(, , ) Time::DayOfWeek's core function which does the calculation and returns the weekday index answer in 0..6. If no Year is supplied, 2000 C.E. is assumed. If no Month or Day is supplied, they are set to 1. Months are 1-based in 1..12. DoW() is the only function that is exported from a normal 'use Time::DayOfWeek;' command. Other functions can be imported to local namespaces explicitly or with the following tags: :all - every function described here :dow - only DoW(), Dow(), and DayOfWeek() :nam - only DayNames() and MonthNames() :day - everything but MonthNames() Dow(, , ) same as above but returns 3-letter day abbreviations in 'Sun'..'Sat'. DayOfWeek(, , ) same as above but returns full day names in 'Sunday'..'Saturday'. DayNames(<@NewDayNames>) can override default day names with the strings in @NewDayNames. The current list of day names is returned so call DayNames() with no parameters to obtain a list of the default day names. An example call is: DayNames('Domingo', 'Lunes', 'Martes', 'Miercoles', 'Jueves', 'Viernes', 'Sabado'); MonthNames(<@NewMonthNames>) has also been included to provide a centralized name set. Just like DayNames(), this function returns the current list of month names so call MonthNames() with no parameters to obtain a list of the default month names. CHANGES Revision history for Perl extension Time::DayOfWeek: - 1.6.A6FFxZB Tue Jun 15 15:59:35:11 2010 * had to bump minor version to keep them ascending - 1.4.A6FCO7V Tue Jun 15 12:24:07:31 2010 * added hack to shift days right one between Feb2008..2009 (still not sure why algorithm skewed) - 1.4.75R5ulZ Sun May 27 05:56:47:35 2007 * added kwalitee && POD tests, bumped minor version * condensed code && moved POD to bottom - 1.2.4CCMRd5 Sun Dec 12 22:27:39:05 2004 * updated License - 1.0.429BmYk Mon Feb 9 11:48:34:46 2004 * updated DoW param tests to turn zero month or day to one * updated POD to contain links - 1.0.41M4ecn Thu Jan 22 04:40:38:49 2004 * made bin/dow as EXE_FILES && added named month param detection - 1.0.3CNH7Fs Tue Dec 23 17:07:15:54 2003 * removed most eccentric misspellings - 1.0.3CCA4sO Fri Dec 12 10:04:54:24 2003 * removed indenting from POD NAME field - 1.0.3CB7PxT Thu Dec 11 07:25:59:29 2003 * added month name data and tidied up for release - 1.0.3C7IOam Sun Dec 7 18:24:36:48 2003 * wrote pod and made tests - 1.0.3C7Exdx Sun Dec 7 14:59:39:59 2003 * original version INSTALL Please run: `perl -MCPAN -e "install Time::DayOfWeek"` or uncompress the package && run: `perl Makefile.PL; make; make test; make install` or if you don't have `make` but Module::Build is installed `perl Build.PL; perl Build; perl Build test; perl Build install` LICENSE Most source code should be Free! Code I have lawful authority over is && shall be! Copyright: (c) 2003-2007, Pip Stuart. Copyleft : This software is licensed under the GNU General Public License (version 2). Please consult the Free Software Foundation (HTTP://FSF.Org) for important information about your freedom. AUTHOR Pip Stuart