Jeff Pang wrote:
>> #!/usr/bin/perl
>>
>> use warnings;
>> use strict;
>>
>> my @date     = (localtime (time - (24*60*60)))[3..5];
>>
>> foreach my $i (@date) {
>>        print $i . "\n";
>> }
>>
>> exit;
>>
>> I get this:
>>
>> 10
>> 1
>> 107
>>
>>
>> I still have to add 1 to the month.  Is that right?  Also, the year still 
>> needs
>> to be fixed by adding 1900 but from what I've read that is due to the way
>> computers work and not necessarily because of Perl.
>>
> 
> I think it's better to write:
> 
> my ($day,$month,$year) = (localtime (time - (24*60*60)))[3..5];
> 
> and you still need to add these two statements:
> 
> $month++;
> $year+=1900;
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Jeff Pang
> EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  AIM: jeffpang
> 

I need to make sure $day and $month are in 2-digit format so that wouldn't work.
 At least, not anyway I'm presently familiar with.  I tried to use sprintf in
there but it failed because of not enough arguments.

Mathew

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