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Re: [ID 20000307.005] Date Problem

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From:
Tom Christiansen
Date:
March 7, 2000 09:56
Subject:
Re: [ID 20000307.005] Date Problem
Message ID:
7275.952451756@chthon
>Or, more accurately:

># The endings for ordinal numbers.
>@ORDINALS = ('th', 'st', 'nd', 'rd', ('th') x 17, 'st', 'nd', 'rd',
>             ('th') x 7, 'st');

>print "... the $day$ORDINALS[$day] of $month";

>But this is getting off-topic.  :)

Ah, but it's cool though, which covers a a multitude of sins.

--tom
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