AW: Date calculation help/suggestion please ... when there is no Date or Time module available

2010-04-08 Thread Thomas Bätzler
newbie01 perl newbie01.p...@gmail.com wrote: Problem 1: - Is there a function to compare the two (2) dates so ensure that I will always be doing future_date-past_date? At the moment, the workaround that am doing is if I get a negative value, then that means, I've done a past_date-future_date

Date calculation help/suggestion please ... when there is no Date or Time module available

2010-04-07 Thread newbie01 perl
any additional modules as the UNIX SA said no, no, no, no gr ... I don't have DateTime or Date::Manip either. I don't know what Date or Time modules are installed on the server. Is there a way to check what modules are available/installed on the Perl install? - Anyway, question is can

Date and Time and Function calls

2007-11-25 Thread AndrewMcHorney
Hello I am looking for a perl function or functions that will give me the date and time. I am going to use the results to create a unique file name. Andrew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Date and Time and Function calls

2007-11-25 Thread yitzle
function or functions that will give me the date and time. I am going to use the results to create a unique file name. Andrew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Date and Time and Function calls

2007-11-25 Thread Tom Phoenix
On 11/24/07, AndrewMcHorney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a perl function or functions that will give me the date and time. Are you looking in the perlfunc manpage? Type 'perldoc perlfunc' at a prompt (or into your favorite search engine) to get started. I am going to use

Re: Date and Time and Function calls

2007-11-25 Thread rahed
AndrewMcHorney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello I am looking for a perl function or functions that will give me the date and time. I am going to use the results to create a unique file name. There are many posibilities depending on uniqueness, this is quite similar: $randnum = 1000 + int

Re: Date and Time and Function calls

2007-11-25 Thread Dr.Ruud
rahed schreef: AndrewMcHorney: I am looking for a perl function or functions that will give me the date and time. I am going to use the results to create a unique file name. There are many posibilities depending on uniqueness, this is quite similar: $randnum = 1000 + int rand(9000

Re: Date and Time and Function calls

2007-11-25 Thread Martin Barth
Hi Andrew, I would suggest http://search.cpan.org/~tjenness/File-Temp-0.19/Temp.pm HTH Martin On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:44:18 -0800 AndrewMcHorney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I am looking for a perl function or functions that will give me the date and time. I am going to use

Re: Date and time

2007-01-22 Thread M. Lewis
Rob Dixon wrote: M. Lewis wrote: Given the following code, if I were to want $day, $month, $hour, $minute $sec to have a leading zero (ie 01 for Jan rather than 1), is my only option to use printf? Or is there a better way. What I'm searching for here is the *correct* method to

Re: Date and time

2007-01-21 Thread John W. Krahn
M. Lewis wrote: Given the following code, if I were to want $day, $month, $hour, $minute $sec to have a leading zero (ie 01 for Jan rather than 1), is my only option to use printf? Or is there a better way. What I'm searching for here is the *correct* method to get $day, $month, etc for

Re: Date and time

2007-01-21 Thread Owen
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 02:17:08 -0500 M. Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given the following code, if I were to want $day, $month, $hour, $minute $sec to have a leading zero (ie 01 for Jan rather than 1), is my only option to use printf? Or is there a better way. Look at sprintf perldoc -f

Re: Date and time

2007-01-21 Thread Goksie
M. Lewis wrote: Given the following code, if I were to want $day, $month, $hour, $minute $sec to have a leading zero (ie 01 for Jan rather than 1), is my only option to use printf? Or is there a better way. What I'm searching for here is the *correct* method to get $day, $month, etc for

Re: Date and time

2007-01-21 Thread Dr.Ruud
M. Lewis schreef: if I were to want $day, $month, $hour, $minute $sec to have a leading zero (ie 01 for Jan rather than 1), is my only option to use printf? Or is there a better way. What I'm searching for here is the *correct* method to get $day, $month, etc for uses like naming backup

Re: Date and time

2007-01-21 Thread Rob Dixon
M. Lewis wrote: Given the following code, if I were to want $day, $month, $hour, $minute $sec to have a leading zero (ie 01 for Jan rather than 1), is my only option to use printf? Or is there a better way. What I'm searching for here is the *correct* method to get $day, $month, etc for

Date and time

2007-01-20 Thread M. Lewis
Given the following code, if I were to want $day, $month, $hour, $minute $sec to have a leading zero (ie 01 for Jan rather than 1), is my only option to use printf? Or is there a better way. What I'm searching for here is the *correct* method to get $day, $month, etc for uses like naming

RE: Date and Time Functions

2006-09-22 Thread Lee Goddard
Xavier Mas i Ramón [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : A Dijous 21 Setembre 2006 01:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] va escriure: I am looking for some simple perl functions that will return the current date and time in string format. The purpose is to create a file with part of the name being the date

Re: Date and Time Functions

2006-09-21 Thread Xavier Mas i Ramón
A Dijous 21 Setembre 2006 01:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] va escriure: Hello I am looking for some simple perl functions that will return the current date and time in string format. The purpose is to create a file with part of the name being the date and time. Thanks, Andrew sytem date spits out

Date and Time Functions

2006-09-20 Thread andrewmchorney
Hello I am looking for some simple perl functions that will return the current date and time in string format. The purpose is to create a file with part of the name being the date and time. Thanks, Andrew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Date and Time Functions

2006-09-20 Thread andrewmchorney
Hello I am looking for some simple perl functions that will return the current date and time in string format. The purpose is to create a file with part of the name being the date and time. Thanks, Andrew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Date and Time Functions

2006-09-20 Thread Jeff Pang
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sep 21, 2006 7:38 AM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Date and Time Functions Hello I am looking for some simple perl functions that will return the current date and time in string format. The purpose is to create a file with part of the name being the date

Re: Date and Time Functions

2006-09-20 Thread Owen Cook
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I am looking for some simple perl functions that will return the current date and time in string format. The purpose is to create a file with part of the name being the date and time. I use something like

date and time in perl

2006-04-10 Thread Irfan J Sayed
Hi All, How to get date and time in perl ? is there any function for that ? Regards Irfan Sayed

Re: date and time in perl

2006-04-10 Thread Chas Owens
On 4/1/06, Irfan J Sayed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, How to get date and time in perl ? is there any function for that ? Regards Irfan Sayed localtime() returns the current time in your timezone. When called in scalar context it returns a string representation of the date and time

Re: date and time in perl

2006-04-10 Thread Irfan J Sayed
Hi, Can you tell me exact command / syntax as i struggled lot but didn't succeed so that i can store date,time in some variable. plz let me know. Regards Irfan Sayed Chas Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/10/2006 03:38 PM To Irfan J Sayed/India/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc beginners@perl.org Subject

Re: date and time in perl

2006-04-10 Thread Jeff Pang
Hi, Can you tell me exact command / syntax as i struggled lot but didn't succeed so that i can store date,time in some variable. Hi,you can use the 'strftime' which is coming from POSIX to get your time format similar to Unix shell command. for example,you could write: use POSIX qw

Re: date and time in perl

2006-04-10 Thread Irfan J Sayed
Thanks Jelf Regards Irfan Sayed Jeff Pang [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/10/2006 06:11 PM Please respond to Jeff Pang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To beginners@perl.org cc Subject Re: date and time in perl Hi, Can you tell me exact command / syntax as i struggled lot but didn't succeed so that i

Re: date and time in perl

2006-04-10 Thread Dr.Ruud
Irfan J Sayed schreef: Can you tell me exact command / syntax [...] so that i can store date,time in some variable. See: perldoc -f localtime http://perlmeme.org/faqs/datetime/ -- Affijn, Ruud Gewoon is een tijger. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: date and time in perl

2006-04-10 Thread nishanth ev
Hello, Use this code according to your requirement. #!/usr/bin/perl $no=`date`; print $no; Regards Nish __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Date and time calculation

2004-06-17 Thread Chris Charley
Hi there, I've got a date field and a time field, how can I effectively subtract the field ($date $time) - ($date2 $time2) from each other. I am using these two fields to determine a server's uptime according to my database in days,hours,minutes,seconds. Kind Regards, Werner Otto Perhaps

Date and time calculation

2004-06-16 Thread Werner Otto
Hi there, I've got a date field and a time field, how can I effectively subtract the field ($date $time) - ($date2 $time2) from each other. I am using these two fields to determine a server's uptime according to my database in days,hours,minutes,seconds. I have read numourous articles and posts

Re: Date and time calculation

2004-06-16 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
Hi there, I've got a date field and a time field, how can I effectively subtract the field ($date $time) - ($date2 $time2) from each other. I am using these two fields to determine a server's uptime according to my database in days,hours,minutes,seconds. I have read numourous articles

Re: Date and time calculation

2004-06-16 Thread Werner Otto
a date field and a time field, how can I effectively subtract the field ($date $time) - ($date2 $time2) from each other. I am using these two fields to determine a server's uptime according to my database in days,hours,minutes,seconds. I have read numourous articles and posts on suggestions

Re: Date and time calculation

2004-06-16 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
as it was? I don't understand what you are asking. ?? http://danconia.org Hi there, I've got a date field and a time field, how can I effectively subtract the field ($date $time) - ($date2 $time2) from each other. I am using these two fields to determine a server's uptime according to my

RE: Date and time calculation

2004-06-16 Thread Tim Johnson
: Subject: Re: Date and time calculation snip Date::Calc Date::Manip DateTime All make this trivial.

Re: Date and Time

2004-01-23 Thread Owen
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:06:58 -0800 Larry Guest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But rsync does not know how to handle this string, I think when its passed to rsync its not text as I see it on the screen. It cant make the dir and pukes. I have seen a bunch of stuff out there for sprintf, etc

Date and Time

2004-01-22 Thread Larry Guest
I am calling rsync from my perl script. When it runs it creates a dir where I want the backups to go. I need this dir to be the current date-time. I can get the format I want like this. my $date = `date +%m-%d-%Y_%H-%M-%S`; Which gives me 01-22-2004_20-04-14 But rsync does

RE: Date and Time

2004-01-22 Thread Tim Johnson
' Subject: Date and Time I can get the format I want like this. my $date = `date +%m-%d-%Y_%H-%M-%S`; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response

Date and time modified

2002-09-09 Thread Quincy Ntuli
Greetings. I wish to obtain the time and date of a file. How do i do this in perl ? There is probably a module out there to do this but is it possible to modify the date and time format of the output of whatever method is available for getting the time and date modified for a file ? thanx

Re: Date and time modified

2002-09-09 Thread drieux
On Friday, Aug 9, 2002, at 09:13 US/Pacific, Quincy Ntuli wrote: Greetings. I wish to obtain the time and date of a file. How do i do this in perl ? perldoc -f stat ciao drieux --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Date and time modified

2002-09-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 06:13:41PM +0200, Quincy Ntuli wrote: Greetings. I wish to obtain the time and date of a file. How do i do this in perl ? perldoc -f stat perldoc -f -X There is probably a module out there to do this but is it possible to modify the date and time format

Re: teaching examples (was Re: Date and Time)

2002-07-15 Thread David T-G
drieux, et al -- ...and then drieux said... % % On Saturday, July 13, 2002, at 07:11 , David T-G wrote: % % In the main I like where this is generally going. Yay :-) % % A part of my argument with myself today has been about % % which is better? all 'teaching code' should be 'virgin

Re: teaching examples (was Re: Date and Time)

2002-07-15 Thread Peter Scott
At 09:13 AM 7/15/02 -0500, David T-G wrote: I *think* I understand this. - 'my' defines a var for only this block and does not export to subroutines Correct, although 'export' is the wrong term. This is why these are called 'lexical' variables; their scope is lexically defined (as in,

Re: teaching examples (was Re: Date and Time)

2002-07-13 Thread David T-G
Peter, et al -- ...and then Peter Scott said... % % At 11:18 AM 7/12/02 -0500, David T-G wrote: % % ...and then Peter Scott said... % % ... % % possible. Later on I show the beginners a nasty example of the % % consequences of leaving out use strict, -w/use warnings, or both. % % Oooh!

Re: teaching examples (was Re: Date and Time)

2002-07-13 Thread drieux
On Saturday, July 13, 2002, at 07:11 , David T-G wrote: In the main I like where this is generally going. A part of my argument with myself today has been about which is better? all 'teaching code' should be 'virgin clean'??? or should we show the actual process by which ideas

Re: Date and Time

2002-07-12 Thread David T-G
Peter, et al -- ...and then Peter Scott said... % ... % code. (Yes, IMHO, if you insist.) My students see it in every program % I show them, from Hello World onward. I tell them that if anyone gives % them code without it to maintain, they should refuse if at all % possible. Later on I

Re: Date and Time

2002-07-12 Thread Peter Scott
At 11:18 AM 7/12/02 -0500, David T-G wrote: Peter, et al -- ...and then Peter Scott said... % ... % code. (Yes, IMHO, if you insist.) My students see it in every program % I show them, from Hello World onward. I tell them that if anyone gives % them code without it to maintain, they should

Re: Date and Time

2002-07-11 Thread zentara
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 11:52:55 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is what I have now. ... The only problem seems to be the use strict; directive if I take this out it works fine So I guess I need to know if the use strict; directive is really necessary and if so how do I get around it?

Fw: Re: Date and Time

2002-07-11 Thread jffusion
first off let me say thank you for the help I know I am a pest, but I am learning a lot Anyway I fixed everything so it works fine in my editor However now it refuses to work in my browser. I keep getting an error 500 Which I can only assume is because of my html header. I checked the subject

Date and Time

2002-07-10 Thread jffusion
Hi I'm trying to get my script to recognize the date and time. I thought I had it but I keep getting errors all over. Please take a look and tell me whats wrong Thanks # Here we define the variables use strict; my $htpasswd = 'c:\apache\htdocs\members\.htpasswd'; my $database = 'c:\apache

Date and Time

2002-07-10 Thread jffusion
Hi I'm trying to get my script to recognize the date and time. I thought I had it but I keep getting errors all over. Please take a look and tell me whats wrong Thanks # Here we define the variables use strict; my $htpasswd = 'c:\apache\htdocs\members\.htpasswd'; my $database = 'c:\apache

Re: Date and Time

2002-07-10 Thread victor
are you trying to get the localtime in readable format? if so try this print scalar(localtime); Tor. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm trying to get my script to recognize the date and time. I thought I had it but I keep getting errors all over. Please take a look and tell me whats

Re: Date and Time

2002-07-10 Thread Connie Chan
Do you want$date = @months[$mon]/$mday/$year; or $date = $months[$mon]/$mday/$year; Rgds, Connie - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 10:57 AM Subject: Date and Time Hi I'm trying to get my script to recognize

Re: Date and Time

2002-07-10 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Tue, 09 Jul 2002 22:12:52 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get my script to recognize the date and time. I thought I had it but I keep getting errors all over. Please take a look and tell me whats wrong [...] sub get_date { ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday

Re: Date and Time

2002-07-10 Thread jffusion
This is what I have now. #!C:/Perl/bin/perl.exe -w ### # Written by William S. Lyles # July 9 2002 # # The purpose of this program # is to generate a random username # and password, then write the # username and password to a # database file and .htpasswd file #

RE: Date and Time

2002-07-10 Thread Kipp, James
The only problem seems to be the use strict; directive if I take this out it works fine So I guess I need to know if the use strict; directive is really necessary and if so how do I get around it? either take it out or declare ALL of your variables. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

RE: Date and Time

2002-07-10 Thread Peter Scott
At 12:46 PM 7/10/02 -0400, Kipp, James wrote: The only problem seems to be the use strict; directive if I take this out it works fine So I guess I need to know if the use strict; directive is really necessary and if so how do I get around it? either take it out or declare ALL of

RE: Date and Time

2002-07-10 Thread Timothy Johnson
,$isdst) = localtime(time); -Original Message- From: Kipp, James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 9:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Date and Time The only problem seems to be the use strict; directive if I take this out it works fine So I guess I

How to get Date and Time value in a variable

2002-06-12 Thread Leila Lappin
Hi all, I thought getting the date would be like how it's in a shell script `date` but it does not seem to be working. Could someone please advise me on this I tried searching archives on date but didn't get anything useful. It's possible I'm looking in the wrong place. Thanks in advance

Re: How to get Date and Time value in a variable

2002-06-12 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
. Don't use the shell. Perl provides you with the localtime() and time() functions. perldoc -f localtime perldoc -f time Perhaps if you tell us what format you want the date and time in, we could be of more service. But even before you ask us that, I direct your attention to the POSIX

Re: How to get Date and Time value in a variable

2002-06-12 Thread drieux
On Wednesday, June 12, 2002, at 10:46 , Leila Lappin wrote: [..] I thought getting the date would be like how it's in a shell script `date` but it does not seem to be working. Could someone please advise me on this I tried searching archives on date but didn't get anything useful. It's

Date and time.

2002-01-04 Thread Mark-Nathaniel Weisman
Hello all, Sorry about re-hashing old things here, however I've looked through the older messages and can't seem to come up with an answer. How can you pull a server based date and time stamp from within a script? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Mark-Nathaniel Weisman A+, MCP

Re: Date and time.

2002-01-04 Thread Jon Molin
Mark-Nathaniel Weisman wrote: Hello all, Sorry about re-hashing old things here, however I've looked through the older messages and can't seem to come up with an answer. How can you pull a server based date and time stamp from within a script? Any help would be greatly appreciated

date and time

2001-08-16 Thread Najamuddin, Junaid
Hi, I am new with Perl if someone can help me out I wrote a script which reads two files and compares them and then prints out what is missing but since the txt files are kind of log files they have time and date column in it what i want is to out put only 2 hours old log after comparing how can

Re: date and time

2001-08-16 Thread register
Wothout code and the format of the log file I can only suggest this ... others might have other ideas .. You could read in the line and try to split on the line to put the list elements into a hash ... the key of hte hash would be the converted time/date stamp in epoch then you can loop