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Re: How to subtract date by 1 day

by Zaxo (Archbishop)
on Dec 13, 2007 at 10:22 UTC ( [id://656794]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to How to subtract date by 1 day

Subtract 24*60*60 seconds from the unix time before using localtime to split into units.

I recommend POSIX::strftime for converting that to a string.

use POSIX 'strftime'; print strftime "%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M_%S/n", localtime() - 24 * 60 * 60;
prints this time yesterday in your format.

After Compline,
Zaxo

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Re^2: How to subtract date by 1 day
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 13, 2007 at 15:08 UTC

    If by day, the OP means 24 hours, that's fine. If he just wants to move back the date one day without changing the time, your solution is wrong since not every day has 24*60*60 seconds. Use timegm+gmtime to do date manips.

    use POSIX qw( strftime ); use Time::Local qw( timegm ); my ($d,$m,$y) = (localtime())[3,4,5]; print(strftime("%Y_%m_%d\n", gmtime(timegm(0,0,0,$d,$m,$y) - 24*60*60) ));

    With time:

    use POSIX qw( strftime ); use Time::Local qw( timegm ); my ($sec,$min,$hour,$d,$m,$y) = localtime(); ($d,$m,$y) = (gmtime(timegm(0,0,0,$d,$m,$y) - 24*60*60))[3,4,5]; print(strftime("%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M_%S\n", $sec,$min,$hour,$d,$m,$y));

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