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From: Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: calculate weekday of birthday
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 17:24:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a83kkzxm.fsf@alphapapa.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87379ciwfn.fsf@luna

Hi Salome,

The decode-time function returns a list that includes the day-of-week as
a number from 0-6.  You'll have to give it an encoded time, which you
can use encode-time for.

A wild idea would be to use the shell "date" command, which is overkill
for this, but I just happen to have this code handy, in case you or
anyone else might find it useful:

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp
(defmacro call-process-with-args (process &rest args)
  "Return results of running PROCESS with ARGS."
  (declare (indent defun))
  `(with-temp-buffer
     (unless (= 0 (call-process ,process nil t nil
                                ,@args))
       (user-error ,(concat process " failed")))
     (buffer-substring-no-properties (point-min) (point-max))))

(defun get-day-of-week (string)
  "Parse STRING with the shell `date' command and return day-of-week as string."
  (call-process-with-args
   "date" "-d" string "+%a"))
#+END_SRC

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2017-07-31 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-31 13:10 calculate weekday of birthday Salome Soedergran
2017-07-31 22:24 ` Adam Porter [this message]
2017-07-31 22:26 ` Nick Dokos

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