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Conference star::wizards

Title: "ASK THE WIZARDS"
Moderator:QUARK::LIONEL
Created:Mon Oct 30 1995
Last Modified:Mon May 12 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1857
Total number of notes:3728

1666.0. "Open: detecting if current day is prime or second" by STAR::JKEENAN () Thu Mar 13 1997 16:08

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Name: Ian Mackay
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Questions: 

I want to be able to detect if the current day is a secondary or primary day.
The SET DAY/PRIMARY etc changes the value of EXE$GL_FLAGS
but I would like to know if there is a documented way of
find out the day type rather than having to decrypt the
global symbol.
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