The answer was to use gnu date like so:
#DAY=`/usr/local/bin/date -d 07/11/05 +%a`
# echo $DAY
Mon
also someone was nice enuf to give me this ksh function:
dow() { # year month day
week=`cal "${2}" "${1}" | grep -w "${3}"`
sun=`echo "${week}" | cut -c 01-02`
mon=`echo "${week}" | cut -c 04-05`
tue=`echo "${week}" | cut -c 07-08`
wed=`echo "${week}" | cut -c 10-11`
thu=`echo "${week}" | cut -c 13-14`
fri=`echo "${week}" | cut -c 16-17`
sat=`echo "${week}" | cut -c 19-20`
if [ "${3}" -eq "${sun}" ]; then echo Sun; fi
if [ "${3}" -eq "${mon}" ]; then echo Mon; fi
if [ "${3}" -eq "${tue}" ]; then echo Tue; fi
if [ "${3}" -eq "${wed}" ]; then echo Wed; fi
if [ "${3}" -eq "${thu}" ]; then echo Thu; fi
if [ "${3}" -eq "${fri}" ]; then echo Fri; fi
if [ "${3}" -eq "${sat}" ]; then echo Sat; fi
}
dow 2004 12 31
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