in reply to Date comparison

Use Date::Calc, or if that can't parse it, or if you need very specialized date functions, use Date::Manip.

Abigail

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Re: Re: Date comparison
by bengmau (Beadle) on Jul 05, 2002 at 16:55 UTC
    I tried Date::Manip.. module is too big! I'll try Date parse.. see what I can see..
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      In my version of Perl Date::Manip weighs in at 211KB which is 1KB less than the wildly popular CGI
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        You might also be interested in the authors own comments in SHOULD I USE DATE::MANIP
        If you look in CPAN, you'll find that there are a number of Date and Time packages. Is Date::Manip the one you should be using? In my opinion, the answer is no most of the time. This sounds odd coming from the author of the software, but read on.

        Date::Manip is written entirely in perl. It's the most powerful of the date modules. It's also the biggest and slowest.

        Follow the link above to read the rest.....

        -Blake

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      What do you mean by "module is too big"? Perl doesn't have any limitations on how large a module can be.

      Abigail

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