Re: Backing up two days from localtime

2002-04-26 Thread John W. Krahn
Tara Calishain wrote: > > Actually, are there any books/docs that talk specifically about dealing > with time? http://www.rdbooks.com/store/products/rd2735.htm John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: Backing up two days from localtime

2002-04-26 Thread Timothy Johnson
You can convert the date/time to seconds format using the Time::Local module. It attempts to do a "reverse localtime()". -Original Message- From: Felix Geerinckx To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 4/26/02 5:40 AM Subject: Re: Backing up two days from localtime on Fri, 26 Apr 200

Re: Backing up two days from localtime

2002-04-26 Thread Michael Lamertz
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 08:32:21AM -0400, Tara Calishain wrote: > I'm anticipating coming across this same problem with user input dates, and > I don't expect the seconds trick will work for that one. > > For example, say a user specified $day-$month-$year and ten days, and I > wanted to generat

Re: Backing up two days from localtime

2002-04-26 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:32:21 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tara Calishain) wrote: > Actually, are there any books/docs that talk specifically about > dealing with time? > I'm anticipating coming across this same problem with user input > dates, and I don't expect the seconds trick will work for that >

Re: Backing up two days from localtime

2002-04-26 Thread Tara Calishain
At 02:05 AM 4/26/2002, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: > >I need to back up two days from localtime and I can't figure out how to do > >it. Currently I'm doing this just so I can work out the rest of the program: > > > >($day, $month, $year) = (localtime) [3,4,5]; #getting your local time > >The generi

Re: Backing up two days from localtime

2002-04-26 Thread Michael Lamertz
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 09:32:04AM +0100, Jonathan E. Paton wrote: > > I need to back up two days from localtime and I can't > > figure out how to do it. Currently I'm doing this just > > so I can work out the rest of the program: > > [Ignore me if you aren't on a Unix like platform] > > Hi, >

Re: Backing up two days from localtime

2002-04-26 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> I need to back up two days from localtime and I can't > figure out how to do it. Currently I'm doing this just > so I can work out the rest of the program: [Ignore me if you aren't on a Unix like platform] Hi, You should seriously consider installing the 'at' job manager for run-once tasks, o

RE: Backing up two days from localtime

2002-04-25 Thread Timothy Johnson
two days from localtime Howdy, I need to back up two days from localtime and I can't figure out how to do it. Currently I'm doing this just so I can work out the rest of the program: ($day, $month, $year) = (localtime) [3,4,5]; #getting your local time information $realday = $day-2; if

Re: Backing up two days from localtime

2002-04-25 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Apr 26, Tara Calishain said: >I need to back up two days from localtime and I can't figure out how to do >it. Currently I'm doing this just so I can work out the rest of the program: > >($day, $month, $year) = (localtime) [3,4,5]; #getting your local time The generic (read: potentially unsaf

Backing up two days from localtime

2002-04-25 Thread Tara Calishain
Howdy, I need to back up two days from localtime and I can't figure out how to do it. Currently I'm doing this just so I can work out the rest of the program: ($day, $month, $year) = (localtime) [3,4,5]; #getting your local time information $realday = $day-2; if ($realday<1) {$realday = 30} els