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From:
Eric Beaudoin
Date:
March 15, 2002 21:56
Subject:
Open for business caculation
Message ID:
5.1.0.14.2.20020316003430.00aa3e38@pop.videotron.ca
Hi everyone,

I'm working on a script that will compile statistics for helpdesk tickets. To compute these stats, I need to be able count the number of "business hours" between the opening and the resolution of tickets. The working hours are 08:00 to 17:00 so a ticket opened on Monday at 16:00 and closed at Wednesday at 10:00 took 11 hours to solve. Weekends and holydays are off.

Before going to the trouble of writing functions that will deal with dates in this fashion, I was wondering if anybody knew either a simple way to do it or a module that would deal with it. I browsed the CPAN's Date and Time modules (there are lots of them) and couldn't find anything doing what I wanted. I thought I would ask here if anybody had pointers for me.

TIA

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Éric Beaudoin               <mailto:beaudoer@videotron.ca>
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