01-19-2011
Date comparison
Date comparison
Hello all
I am writing a scrip that will take action so long as the date with in the file is older than 3 months. The file will contain multiple rows of data. Each row will probably start with the date. My question... What is the exact code that should be used for date comparison. I am thinking
if date A > current date
Then
do task...
else
fi
will Date A > current date surfice?
Last edited by UofU; 01-19-2011 at 02:13 PM..
Reason: typo
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dm_date
DM_DATE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation DM_DATE(1)
NAME
dm_date - print out the system date and time
SYNOPSIS
This performs the same operation as the unix 'date' command, but using the Date::Manip module.
dm_date [OPTION]... [+FORMAT]
DESCRIPTION
This displays information about the current system time, or some other time. Options are:
-h, --help
Print online help.
-d STRING, --date=STRING
Display time described by STRING. STRING can be any string which can be parsed by Date::Manip. Please refer to the Date::Manip::Date
documentation for details.
-f DATEFILE, --file=DATEFILE
This reads each line in DATEFILE, and extracts a date from it and prints out the information.
Blank lines and lines starting with a pound (#) are ignored. Lines not containing a valid date are also ignored.
-r FILE, --reference=FILE
Displays the last modification time of FILE.
-R, --rfc-2822
Displayc the date and time in RFC 2822 format.
Example: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:34:56 -0600
-u, --utc, --universal
Converts the date to UT (GMT) and prints out the information.
Only one of -d, -f, or -r should be included. If more than one is included, the first one from the list (-d, -f, -r) is used and any other
is ignored.
The format string starts with a plus (+) and contains any of the format directives described in Date::Manip::Date.
KNOWN BUGS
None known.
BUGS AND QUESTIONS
Please refer to the Date::Manip::Problems documentation for information on submitting bug reports or questions to the author.
SEE ALSO
Date::Manip::Date
LICENSE
This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
AUTHOR
Sullivan Beck (sbeck@cpan.org)
perl v5.16.3 2014-06-09 DM_DATE(1)