date manipulation

[nix45]

I'm looking for a module that does date manipulation. If I do....

$date = localtime;

...I could easily write a regexp to format the date in any way I need, but I'd rather not re-invent the wheel if I don't have to. I need the date in this format....YYYYMMDD. Will the Date::Manip module do this?

Thanks,
Chris

 

[Mephansteras]

Date::Manip will do just about anything. It's not fast, though, so if you need speed you'd be better off using one of the other packages on CPAN. Date::Calc, for instance, is quite a bit faster for most applications.

If you don't need speed, however, I've found that Date::Manip is great to have around. It makes most date functions easy to use.

 

[nix45]

I got it, I decided to use Time::Format

use Time::Format qw(%time);
$date = $time{'yyyymmdd'};
print "date is $date\n";

Chris