Re^2: DateManip Delta

Sorry for the tardy reply... I don't get on perl monks more often than every few days.

The original post doesn't include the version they are using which is unfortunate. I'm assuming that it's from the pre 6.00 era. The '%dyd' style formats are from the newer version of Date::Manip, so they won't work with a 5.xx era script.

Also, the original post said he expected (not sure if it was good or bad) around 60+ days for both types of delta, and that shouldn't be a desired result since a business delta by definition is excluding a bunch of days (weekends) so it should be smaller by a factor of approximately 5/7.

If I wanted to know how many days were in the deltas, I'd do the following:

#Standard Days
my $standard_delta = DateCalc($start,$end,0);
my $standard_days  = Delta_Format($standard_delta,2,'%dt');
print "$standard_delta :: $standard_days\n";

#Business Days
my $business_delta = DateCalc($start,$end,3);
my $business_days  = Delta_Format($business_delta,2,'%dt');
print "$business_delta :: $business_days\n";

and the results were:

+0:0:9:4:0:0:0 :: 67.00
+0:0:0:47:0:0:0 :: 47.00

Note that I changed the business day calc mode to 3 (which is an exact business delta). By treating both exactly, you get accurate numbers which you won't get with approximate deltas.

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Re^3: DateManip Delta_Format Usage by wjw (Priest) on Jan 13, 2014 at 20:15 UTC
That is informative! Thanks! ...the majority is always wrong, and always the last to know about it... Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.	[reply]
Re^3: DateManip Delta_Format Usage by nabrown737 (Initiate) on Jan 13, 2014 at 22:47 UTC
Your reply is greatly appreciated, tardy or not! I wish I knew the version I was using, however that information seems to have been lost. I wasn't event aware that there was a 3rd mode for exact business delta. That is exactly what I needed! Thanks, Nathan	[reply]
Re^4: DateManip Delta_Format Usage by SBECK (Chaplain) on Jan 14, 2014 at 19:02 UTC
The version is available (in almost every single module you can get from CPAN) as $VERSION in the module's namespace. For example, the following will usually work: use Foo::Bar; print $Foo::Bar::VERSION; For Date::Manip, that will work, or there's an alternative: use Date::Manip; print DataManipVersion(); which just prints out that value.	[reply]