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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help needed with some date arithmetic Post 302643919 by balajesuri on Monday 21st of May 2012 02:50:31 AM
Old 05-21-2012
1. To compare two dates, it'd be better to have them both in YYYYMMDD format. So that its easier for numeric comparison. For e.g., 20120521 is numerically greater than 20120517.

2. Try Perl's Time::Local module's 'timelocal' routine to convert date into seconds from epoch. This will be suitable for adding 1 day (86400 seconds) to a given date.

3. Perl's 'strftime' routine from POSIX package is recommended for converting a date into required format.

4. If you've GNU date, manipulation would be a lot easier.
 

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Mojo::Date(3pm) 					User Contributed Perl Documentation					   Mojo::Date(3pm)

NAME
Mojo::Date - HTTP 1.1 date container SYNOPSIS
use Mojo::Date; my $date = Mojo::Date->new(784111777); my $http_date = $date->to_string; $date->parse('Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT'); my $epoch = $date->epoch; DESCRIPTION
Mojo::Date implements HTTP 1.1 date and time functions according to RFC 2616. Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT ; RFC 822, updated by RFC 1123 Sunday, 06-Nov-94 08:49:37 GMT ; RFC 850, obsoleted by RFC 1036 Sun Nov 6 08:49:37 1994 ; ANSI C's asctime() format ATTRIBUTES
Mojo::Date implements the following attributes. "epoch" my $epoch = $date->epoch; $date = $date->epoch(784111777); Epoch seconds. METHODS
Mojo::Date inherits all methods from Mojo::Base and implements the following new ones. "new" my $date = Mojo::Date->new; my $date = Mojo::Date->new($string); Construct a new Mojo::Date object. "parse" $date = $date->parse('Sun Nov 6 08:49:37 1994'); Parse date in one of the following formats. - Epoch format(784111777) - RFC 822/1123 (Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT) - RFC 850/1036 (Sunday, 06-Nov-94 08:49:37 GMT) - ANSI C asctime() (Sun Nov 6 08:49:37 1994) "to_string" my $string = $date->to_string; Render date suitable for HTTP 1.1 messages. SEE ALSO
Mojolicious, Mojolicious::Guides, <http://mojolicio.us>. perl v5.14.2 2012-09-05 Mojo::Date(3pm)
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