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

        Peter Coffin wrote:
        > 
        > Booth writes:
        > 
        > > 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....))

        So there are no workdays after 1/1/2000?  Sounds good...

For many working at companies that aren't taking Y2K seriously this may
be only too true !  :-)

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