Hi all, I have a Perl script on Windows that does date calculation and using Date::Calc, Decode_Month and Delta_YMDHMS functions
Am using the script to calculate the difference between two dates, for example, for the two (2) dates below: 01/Jan/2010 04:01:27 01/Jan/2010 02:06:30 The script is working fine, and am happy with how it is at the moment, now at the moment I have two (2) issues/problems as below: Problem 1: - Is there a function to compare the two (2) dates so ensure that I will always be doing <future_date>-<past_date>? At the moment, the workaround that am doing is if I get a negative value, then that means, I've done a <past_date>-<future_date> and need to change the way I print the output. Problem 2 is the bigger problem: - Now I want to use the same script to run on a UNIX box but unfortunately I do not have the Date::Calc module on that server. I am not allowed to install any additional modules as the UNIX SA said no, no, no, no .... grrrrr ... I don't have DateTime or Date::Manip either. I don't know what Date or Time modules are installed on the server. Is there a way to check what modules are available/installed on the Perl install? - Anyway, question is can someone advise if there is any way of doing date calculations in this case where I don't have seem to have any Date or Time module installed? For the moment, I'll try to convince the UNIX SA to download and install the Date::Calc module, fingers crossed. Any advise or response will be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
