re: Does anyone ever need to know what "next Friday" is?

Peter  the programs life is short lived without some help.
At 03:11 PM 1/12/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Booth writes:
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>> I am curious if anyone else ever needs to know the "next Friday (or
>> _any_day )" is for defaults on screens, etc?   I needed to know and wrote
>> a little program to do it, but wondered afterwards if there is some simple
>> command, or if no one else ever cares.
>
>I wrote a moronically simple program that looked up what "workday" of the
>month a given date was. (I cheated though and just built a table with all
>dates and values until the end of 1999, and chained out to it. Dates without
>values aren't workdays. (at least for the non IT people....))
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>Peter H. Coffin
>phcoffin@us.ibm.com
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>owner-midrange-l@midrange.com on 01-09-98 07:33:56 PM
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>I am curious if anyone else ever needs to know the "next Friday (or
>_any_day )" is for defaults on screens, etc?   I needed to know and wrote
>a little program to do it, but wondered afterwards if there is some simple
>command, or if no one else ever cares.
>
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>Booth Martin
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