Re: Counting days with DateTime (updated x2)

Personally I try to avoid the overloaded DateTime math operators, and only use the comparisons. I'd suggest something like:

my $now = DateTime->now( time_zone => 'Pacific/Honolulu' );
my $one_week_from_now = $now->clone->add( weeks=>1 );
if ( $reservation_date > $one_week_from_now ) ...
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Update: Corrected ->add( week=>1 ) to ->add( weeks=>1 )!

Update 2: Added ->clone, as suggested by tobyink below. That's what I get for running a different test case (DateTime->now->add(weeks=>1)) than what I posted here :-/

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Re^2: Counting days with DateTime (updated) by tobyink (Canon) on Apr 02, 2020 at 07:18 UTC
Consider using: `my $one_week_from_now = $now->clone->add( weeks=>1 );` [download] This is because most of the DateTime add/subtract methods mutate the object the operated on, and you probably don't want `$now` to be a date in the future! toby döt ink	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Counting days with DateTime by htmanning (Friar) on Apr 01, 2020 at 19:33 UTC
Thanks so much! This worked after I changed "week" to "weeks."	[reply]
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