Calculating dates in perl

[Milamber]

Hi everyone,<br>
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I'm currently involved in a report generating project, where my perl script has to work out how many days, hours and/or minutes the difference in two dates is.<br>
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Has anyone done any similar work, and if so, do you have any code you are willing to share?<br>
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Any help will be greatly appreciated!!!<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Milamber

 

[robherc]

Do you already have the dates? if you already have the dates, then you can just use a break command to separate days from hours from minutes, then tell it to subtract; that simple!<br>
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-Robherc<br>
robherc@netzero.net

 

[Milamber]

Yes, the dates are entered by the user, as part of a CGI script. I need to take month and year into consideration, and with months having differing lengths (28-31 days), simple subtraction won't do it accurately enough.<br>
Say one of the dates is May 20th and the other is June 3rd, the answer would obviously be 14 days. <br>
Now I need to make the script capable of handling this sort of scenario, and also correctly calulate number of hours.<br>

 

[robherc]

Couldn't you set up a few arrays (i.e. @jan=(1,2,3,4,5,6) @feb=(1,2,3,4,5,6) etc.) then nest them all together into one (i.e. @dates=(@jan,@feb,@mar....) )<br>
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Not sure, but you can give it a try.<br>
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-Robherc<br>
robherc@netzero.net