printing the weeks day names

Hello
is there is a way to print the name of day week(saturday ,sunday ,...)
instead of the number .
the following code print the date in the formate 00Z 01 Jan 2011 , i wish
 i could print it as
00Z Sat 01 Jan 2011.,
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month_abbr = (/"","Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep", \
                    "Oct","Nov","Dec"/)
days_abbr = (/"sat","sun","mon","tue","wed","thur","fir"/)

time = (/00, 06, 12, 18, 24/)
time@units = "hours since 2012-1-1 00:00:0.0"

utc_date = ut_calendar(time, 0)
year = floattointeger(utc_date(:,0))
month = floattointeger(utc_date(:,1))
day = floattointeger(utc_date(:,2))
hour = floattointeger(utc_date(:,3))
minute = floattointeger(utc_date(:,4))
second = utc_date(:,5)

my_date =sprinti("%0.2iZ ",hour)+sprinti("%0.2i
",day)+month_abbr(month)+sprinti(" %0.4i ",year)
print(my_date)

thanks in advance

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Ahmed Lasheen
Egyptian Meteorological Authority(EMA)
Cairo,Egypt
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Received on Thu Jan 20 15:10:54 2011