So, to sum up, you want to . . .
- Have your script find the day of the week today
- If it's a Wed or Fri, query your db and find all projects due today+14 days into the future or sooner. Else, end the script
- Foreach of those, see if there is another Wed or Fri between now and the due date. If so, send a reminder. If not, send a reminder and a notice to management.
If you haven't already, look at The Many Dates and Times of Perl.
I prefer to work with epoch time when doing calculations, and convert back to other formats for db queries or display.
I would get the epoch time, then find the day of the week with Date::Day. Adding 14*24*60*60 to the current epoch time give you the epoch time two weeks from now (since epoch is in seconds, convert 14 days to hours then minutes then seconds to find that, thus 14*24*60*60). I assume you're using a databse to store projects, so just query for all projects due BETWEEN those two dates, after having converted them into a format the db likes.
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