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Subject: Re: date <-> day-number software sought
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Date: 8 Jul 85 04:23:45 GMT
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along similar lines, here's a program (fragment) that converts a date
string to the obvious integer.  the scope of getdate() is unknown to
me, but i use this on ctime format date strings regularly.
	peter

