RE: Checking for valid dates <-- off topic!

[Tubbs, Derric L]

Sorry about that, you're absolutely right.  I got several responses and they
solved my problem.  Thanks.  And now back to the topic ...

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> From: Neil Kandalgaonkar[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 12:40 PM
> To:   Tubbs, Derric L; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject:  Re: Checking for valid dates <-- off topic!
> 
> At 10:33 -0800 1999-11-02, Tubbs, Derric L wrote:
> >Is there a reasonably easy method to make sure that an entered date is
> >valid, I.E. is not 30 Jan 99?  I am using Time::Local to convert a date
> >entered through an HTML form into the epoch offset (or whatever you call
> it)
> >and would like to make sure that valid dates are entered.  Thanks
> 
> This isn't on topic. Could people please stick to the list topic? If you
> are looking for general perl help, please try other avenues.
> 
> 
> Anyway, as you may already know, Time::Local does not reject impossible
> dates.
> 
> [neil@tux neil]$ perl -MTime::Local -e 'print scalar localtime ( timelocal
> (0,0,0,30,1,1999) ) . "\n"'
> Tue Mar  2 00:00:00 1999
> 
> As usual, if you have a problem you know other people have dealt with you
> should always check the CPAN <http://search.cpan.org/> first.
> 
> Date::Calc has a check_date function.
> 
> 
> 
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> Neil Kandalgaonkar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Systems Architect, Stylus Inc.   http://www.stylus.ca/
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> 
> 

Re: Checking for valid dates <-- off topic!

[Neil Kandalgaonkar]

At 10:33 -0800 1999-11-02, Tubbs, Derric L wrote:
>Is there a reasonably easy method to make sure that an entered date is
>valid, I.E. is not 30 Jan 99?  I am using Time::Local to convert a date
>entered through an HTML form into the epoch offset (or whatever you call it)
>and would like to make sure that valid dates are entered.  Thanks

This isn't on topic. Could people please stick to the list topic? If you
are looking for general perl help, please try other avenues.


Anyway, as you may already know, Time::Local does not reject impossible dates.

[neil@tux neil]$ perl -MTime::Local -e 'print scalar localtime ( timelocal
(0,0,0,30,1,1999) ) . "\n"'
Tue Mar  2 00:00:00 1999

As usual, if you have a problem you know other people have dealt with you
should always check the CPAN  first.

Date::Calc has a check_date function.



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Systems Architect, Stylus Inc.   http://www.stylus.ca/