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There are two modules in this distribution. Date::Doomsday calculates
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doomsday for a particular year. Date::DayOfWeek uses the doomsday
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algorithm to calculate the day of the week for any given date.
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2005-11-22 10:17:23 +01:00
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Doomsday is a cute little idea invented by Dr John Conway that makes it
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very easy to figure out the day of the week for any date.
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2001-06-05 19:39:41 +02:00
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2005-11-22 10:17:23 +01:00
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For more information about the origins and mathematics surrounding
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doomsday, see the following web sites:
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http://rudy.ca/doomsday.html
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http://quasar.as.utexas.edu/BillInfo/doomsday.html
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http://www.cst.cmich.edu/users/graha1sw/Pub/Doomsday/Doomsday.html
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2001-10-12 19:49:02 +02:00
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2005-09-21 21:31:43 +02:00
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WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Date-DayOfWeek/
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