concverting/extracting day of week from entered date

[calabama]

Greetings,

I have (3) pulldown menus. Month, Date and Year. I need to convert the user selections from these pulldowns to the coresponding day of the week.

What would be the best way to do that?

Thanks

Cal

 

[fishiface]

use Time::Local;
use Time::localtime;

# check CGI params here: they can be easily forged

my $time = timelocal( 0, 0, 12,
                   param('day_of_month'),
                   param('month')-1,
                   param('year')
                  );
my $DoW = localtime( $time )->wday; # 0=Sun

I hope that this helps,


yours,


fish

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