Problem 2483. How long until the weekend?

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Harish Maradana on 5 Aug 2014

etime working for 2014 only pls help me

Jon on 5 Aug 2014

You need to find the start of the first weekend after the given date.

rifat on 7 Aug 2014

why do you have to check for 'ev' as prohibited function? Why dont you use full function name instead? It is not allowing me to use datevec.

Jon on 7 Aug 2014

I've seen a cheat using it. I've removed the check.

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