Hey Brian,         

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to write the following on Saturday, September 7, 2002 at 10:00:23 PM.

BV> Hi All,

BV> I'm trying to write a program that will calculate the number of days 
BV> between two dates.  I thought it would be easy enough to write... but I 
BV> thought wrong.

BV> One of the dates is fixed:
BV> $start_date = system "date --d 20020607";

BV> The other date is the current date:
BV> $todays_date = system "date";

BV> I'm not sure how to subtract the two dates to calculate the number of 
BV> days between.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

perldoc -q "How can I compare two dates and find the difference?"

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