date manipulations

[teroy]

Hi there..
I have a variable which contains a date..say
my $var="1940/12/12/";

Is there any module around that gets the difference between this date and the current time.

So basically something which returns

($year,$month,$days)

So it can be presented like
You are 50 years, 3 months and 2 days old etc...

Thanks in advance

 

[fykosak]

basicaly u need to convert the time to seconds and than compare to time variable. After that the localtime function will create an array that contains years, months, minutes etc. So the script would work somehow like:
(@first_time) = split(/\//,$time);
$first_in_seconds = ($first_time[0]-1970)*365*86400 + $first_time[1]*86400*30 +$first_time[2]*86400;
$delta =abs(time - $first_in_seconds);
(@delta_time) = localtime($delta);
u will have to play around a bit with converting your time to seconds because the actual time is measured from the 1.1. 1970...
robin

 

[tsdragon]

CHeck out

http://www.cpan.org.

You'll probably find a module there that can do what you want. Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

http://www.bydisn.com

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For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[teroy]

thanks guys..