Does this month start on a Monday?

Excel, 44 34 23 19 18 bytes

=2=MOD(A3&"-"&A2,7

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Original Answer

=(TEXT(DATE(A2,A3,1),"ddd")="Mon")

Ensure that the year is placed in cell A2 and the month in A3.

:( Crossed out 44 is still 44.


Ruby, 26 24 bytes

->d{Time.gm(*d).monday?}

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You'll never guess what this does.

Edit: -2 bytes from Dingus.


Bash + GNU utilities, 25 22 19 bytes

date -d$1-1|grep ^M

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Or verify the test cases online.

The input is passed as an argument in the format year-month, and the output is the exit code (0 for truthy, 1 for falsey, as usual).