the next day's date

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Re: the next day's date by dws (Chancellor) on Aug 07, 2002 at 19:19 UTC
Is there a perl routine that will get the next day's date? If you don't mind to narrow little 1 hour windows when daylight savings time transitions will give you the wrong answer (in terms of absolute time, but not date), you can do `$tomorrow = time() + 246060;` and then use `localtime()` to pick `$tomorrow` apart into pieces. Or, you can check out Date::Manip.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: the next day's date by mfriedman (Monk) on Aug 07, 2002 at 19:23 UTC
Or, simply, `localtime(time + 86400)` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: the next day's date by RMGir (Prior) on Aug 07, 2002 at 20:56 UTC
I'll second the recommendation for Date::Manip; it will even let you "Date_GetNextWorkDay", letting you specify the holidays that apply in your context. -- Mike	[reply]
Re: the next day's date by Anonymous Monk on Aug 07, 2002 at 19:38 UTC
`sub next_day { sleep 86400; return localtime(); }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: the next day's date by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Aug 08, 2002 at 09:52 UTC
But then you have to wait a day. It can be optimized: `sub next_day { sleep 24 * 60 * 60; my $date = localtime; sleep -24 * 60 * 60; return $date; }` [download] Abigail	[reply] [d/l]
Re: the next day's date by tadman (Prior) on Aug 07, 2002 at 19:26 UTC
You can use Date::Calc of course (or Date::Manip). I'm almost in agreement with dws, except that time is a concept that is ethreal at best. If you're in a region plagued by "daylight savings time", then this may not work during that small window where a day has only 23 hours, or perhaps 25. It's like changing time-zones even though you're sitting still.	[reply]
Re: the next day's date by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Aug 08, 2002 at 09:49 UTC
$ perl -MDate::Manip -wle 'print UnixDate ParseDate ("tomorrow") => + "%u"' Fri Aug 9 11:48:57 +0200 2002 $ [download] Abigail	[reply] [d/l]