On May 13, Harry Putnam said: >Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On May 13, Harry Putnam said: >> >>>Is there a date manipulation module that does the same thing as gnu >>>`date -d' command? That is, given a spec string, it returns a date in >>>the past in user selected format. >>> >>>Like what gnu `date' would do with: >>> date -d '-2 weeks' +"%m%d%Y_%T" >>> 04292004_13:20:28 >> >> You can use the standard (i.e. comes with Perl) POSIX module. It has a >> strftime() function that behaves like C's does. Read the man page for >> strftime and you'll have a pretty good idea how to use POSIX::strftime(). >> >> use POSIX 'strftime'; >> >> my $date = strftime "format string", localtime; > >My question was regarding getting dates in past... Maybe I'm >overlooking something obvious but a cruise thru `man strftime' hasn't >unearthed a method to get past dates like gnu `date -d' can do.
I'm sorry, I misread the question. I thought you were asking about the FORMATTING of the date (the %m%d%Y_%T part) not the time travel part. ;) Date::Manip is A+ for that. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ CPAN ID: PINYAN [Need a programmer? If you like my work, let me know.] <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
