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At 02:05 AM 4/26/2002, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: > >I need to back up two days from localtime and I can't figure out how to do > >it. Currently I'm doing this just so I can work out the rest of the program: > > > >($day, $month, $year) = (localtime) [3,4,5]; #getting your local time > >The generic (read: potentially unsafe) way is to fix the problem right >there: > > ($day, $month, $year) = (localtime(time - 86400*2))[3,4,5]; > >The only place to worry about this is during the switch to/from Daylight >Savings Time, at 2:00 am, twice a year. Thanks Jeff and Timothy. (And thanks to Jonathan too, but I'm on Windows.) Actually, are there any books/docs that talk specifically about dealing with time? I'm anticipating coming across this same problem with user input dates, and I don't expect the seconds trick will work for that one. For example, say a user specified $day-$month-$year and ten days, and I wanted to generate a date string for every day going back ten days. I begin to see the appeal of Julian days. At least with those all you have to do is subtract one. Apparently I've learned some kind of critical mass of perl because I'm writing scripts all over the place. Well, the Google API also had something to do with it, I suspect. Thank you again for your help! TaraThread Previous | Thread Next