RE: time manipulation

2004-10-17 Thread John Bruin
I performed a similar process using 2 modules: Date::Parse (to convert date strings to unix seconds) POSIX (strftime function) and Perls standard localtime function to convert back from unix seconds to a formatted date string POSIX is a standard module so your system probably already has it. J

RE: time manipulation

2004-10-14 Thread Bob Showalter
Patricio Bruna V. wrote: > i need to do some calc with dates, time betwen one date and other, are > any modules that you recommend? I think the DateTime family of modules is the direction things are heading. http://datetime.perl.org See also a neat (although a bit dated) high-level view at: htt

Re: time manipulation

2004-10-14 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> i need to do some calc with dates, time betwen one date and other, are > any modules that you recommend? > > thx > There are several available from CPAN. Date::Calc, Date::Manip, DateTime to name just a few notables. You can also usually do calculations in seconds and use Time::Local and 'loc