Compare 2 dates and get number of business days between the 2 dates

[ljsmith91]

I need some expertise. I have 2 dates pulled out of a database record. They are in scalars $date_start and $date_end. I convert the dates to epoch and get the number of days between the 2 dates and place this value in another scalar called $day_diff_in_days. So, $date_fiff_in_days can be equal to "0" or "1" or "2" or "5" or "11" etc.

I now have to determine whether $date_diff_in_days is less or equal to an agreed service of "2" business days or less.

How would I do this ? Can anyone help me or direct me towards a way of accomplishing this by factoring in 2 weekend days each week? Is there a way of also factoring in US holidays? Thanks for any advice or assistance that you could offer. -ljs

 

[1DMF]

I use this code

###########################
# Date Difference in Days #
###########################
sub dateDiff {
    
    # accepts IS dates (yyyy-mm-dd) - most recent date first!
    my ($date1,$date2) = @_;
    
    use Date::Calc qw(Delta_Days);

    # create dates array
    my @date1 = split(/-/,$date1));
    my @date2  = split(/-/,$date2);  

    # return days difference
    return Delta_Days(@date2,@date1);    
}

but basically have a look at the module Date::Calc and the methods available for messing around with dates.

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