how about converting the times to epoch time and then compare? have a look at timelocal to convert to epoch time....
> -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 11:38 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: comparing dates > > > > > if I use the following to get the date of a file: > use File::stat; > use Time::localtime; > $date_string = ctime(stat($file)->mtime); > print "file $file updated at $date_string\n"; > > I get: > Mon Jan 7 10:21:21 2002 > > Now I want to compare another file date to this one getting > the date the > same way but I don't understand the following example: > > sub getdate { > local($_) = shift; > s/-(\d{4})$/+$1/ || s/\+(\d{4})$/-$1/; > # getdate has broken timezone sign reversal! > $_ = `/usr/local/lib/news/newsbin/getdate '$_'`; > chop; > $_; > } > > I can't use c modules because they haven't been added and I > don't have > permissions. TIA > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
