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on Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:32:21 GMT, calumet@Mindspring.com (Tara
Calishain) wrote:
> 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.
You might want to look into the Date::Calc module at
<http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Date-Calc>
It will cover most calculations with dates.
With ActivePerl on Windows, it's easily installed with
ppm install Date::Calc
--
felix
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