Re: Working out the name of the day given a date
| From: | Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams | Date: | Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:27:48 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Working out the name of the day given a date | ||
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On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Jon Haworth wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Just a quickie. Does anyone have a code snippet for calculating the day of
> the week given a date? I was hoping I could feed a string like "20010116" to
> a function and have it return "Tuesday" - it doesn't have to be exactly this
> date format that is used for the input, but I do need the name of the day on
> the output!
>
> I'm hunting around at the moment but I haven't had any joy so far, I thought
> I'd see if anyone's already invented this wheel...
>
> Cheers
> Jon
>
Try date('l'). (lowercase L)
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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>