From: Peter Rabbitson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: beginners@perl.org Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2005, 5:03:09 PM Subject: datetime comparisons
Tuesday, April 5, 2005, 5:03:09 PM, you wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 04:12:31PM +0300, John wrote: >> hello all >> >> i am wondering a there is a module that do comparisons >> between two different datetime stamps >> >> for example >> >> 2/4/2005:15:20:20 and 4/4/2005:12:09:23 >> >> which date is bigger (namely earliest) >> > I was down this road some time ago myself - definitely DateTime by Dave > Rolsky. While it is not the most compact and not the fastest solution it has > it all. Saved me way too many time from reinventing the wheel. On the other > hand if your application is rather small and is guaranteed to stay small > (which is usually not the case) you might look into other possibilities like > simple numerical acrobatics with Time::Local (e.g. converting everything to > epoch seconds and working from there). DateTime helped and me. The comparison is made easy with two datetime objects. Thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
