07-26-2006
Date question
hi guys, i've got a simple one..
date_time="`date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'`" gives me the system's date and time...
which my script will use this variable to run the data on this date...
my question is... if now, i want to run the script for data's that are like 6 months back...
how can i modify the above line to cater for say from jan this year up to jun this year?
Thanks guys...
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cgi::untaint::date
CGI::Untaint::date(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation CGI::Untaint::date(3pm)
NAME
CGI::Untaint::date - validate a date
SYNOPSIS
use CGI::Untaint;
my $handler = CGI::Untaint->new($q->Vars);
my $date = $handler->extract(-as_date => 'date');
DESCRIPTION
is_valid
This Input Handler verifies that it is dealing with a reasonable date. Reasonably means anything that Date::Manip thinks is sensible, so
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"December 12, 2001"
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See Date::Manip for much more information on what date formats are acceptable.
The resulting date will be a Date::Simple object. Date::Simple for more information on this.
date_format
By default ambiguous dates of the format 08/09/2001 will be treated as UK style (i.e. 8th September rather than 9th August)
If you want to change this, subclass it and override date_format()
WARNING
Date::Manip does not play nicely with taint mode. In order to work around this we locally clobber Date::Manip's 'timezone' code. As we're
only interested in dates rather than times, this shouldn't be much of an issue. If it is, then please let me know!
SEE ALSO
Date::Simple. Date::Manip.
AUTHOR
Tony Bowden
BUGS and QUERIES
Please direct all correspondence regarding this module to:
bug-CGI-Untaint-date@rt.cpan.org
COPYRIGHT and LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Tony Bowden. All rights reserved.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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