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You can convert the date/time to seconds format using the Time::Local
module. It attempts to do a "reverse localtime()".
-----Original Message-----
From: Felix Geerinckx
To: beginners@perl.org
Sent: 4/26/02 5:40 AM
Subject: Re: Backing up two days from localtime
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
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felix
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