perl - MySQL - getting the day of the week

  • From: "Lamar Upshaw" <lupshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 11:08:03 -0800

I'm using MySQL to get the current date with perl. I know how I can take a date, and convert it to readable calendar info: 

2008-12-04 => Dec, 4 2008

My question is, how do I get perl to:
print "Thu, 4 Dec 2008";

It's the day of the week I'm after.

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