On Feb 8, John W. Krahn said: >Mayank wrote: >> Is there a module/or some function to do calculations on date e.g. if >> today is 1st March, and i want the date for previous day (i.e. 28th or >> 29th Feb) > >$ perl -le' >print scalar localtime; >print scalar localtime( time - 24 * 60 * 60 ); >' >Fri Feb 8 04:36:56 2002 >Thu Feb 7 04:36:56 2002
That will break during daylight savings time adjustment... it's safer to get the time for noon, and THEN subtract 86400 from it, or to subtract 60 * 60 * ($hours + 2) where $hours is the current hour of the day. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
