On Thu, 2006-06-04 at 11:03 -0700, Timothy Johnson wrote: > I saw that someone already recommended Date::Calc, but I'll make another > suggestion: Time::Local. It's a much more lightweight module, and it > depends on your ultimate needs, but it's a good one to be familiar with. > It takes text dates and converts them to Perl time() format.
If you're going to use this method, use noon rather than midnight as the time of day. Most people forget that there is a day with 23 hours and another with 25 hours every year, that is, in most places. Don't believe me? What just happened April 2nd? Hint: why did you get up an hour early? Using midnight can throw you calculations off by one day. Using noon gets around this problem. -- __END__ Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, --- Shawn "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." Aristotle * Perl tutorials at http://perlmonks.org/?node=Tutorials * A searchable perldoc is at http://perldoc.perl.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
