Mandira wrote:
Hi ,
Is there is any easy way around to add / subtract days from any given date.
I am new to perl , i don't have Date/Calc.pm .
The way i could figure out is
get date
convert it to epoch
add / subtract seconds for desired number of days (consideriung fact of
1900 add / sub in year )
conver it back to local time
Is there is any other way around for addiing subtracting days in date ?
Thanks in Advance
Mandira
G'day Mandira, most people on this list would suggest installing the
DateTime suite if you want to work with dates and times 'correctly'. Do
you have shell access to the machine you're running perl on? If so, run
cpan and install datetime:
shell> cpan
cpan> install DateTime
cpan> install DateTime::TimeZone
If not, let us know what access you have an we can help with that.
Once you have DateTime, here's a simple recipe for you:
my $datetime = DateTime->new(
year => 2005,
month => 7,
day => 15
);
print $datetime->datetime; # Outputs 2005-07-15T00:00:00
$datetime->add( days => 4 );
print $datetime->datetime; # Outputs 2005-11-15T00:00:00
Cheers!
Rick Measham
