Re: date comparison

You can use Date::Manip to obtain the delta between one date and the other. Here's an example:

use Date::Manip;

$date1=&ParseDate('2004-10-28');
$date2=&ParseDate('2003-10-23');
$delta=&DateCalc($date1,$date2,\$err,1);

print $delta."\n";
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The content of $delta is a string which you have to know how to read. The format is:

YY:MM:WK:DD:HH:MM:SS (the years, months, etc. between the two)
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Actually, there are several options for date comaprison. Read perldoc Date::Manip for more information.

Michele.

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Re: Re: date comparison by TVSET (Chaplain) on May 20, 2003 at 14:42 UTC
From the rumors I've heard, Date::Manip is considered to be slow and heavy. You might gain something by splitting the date into year, month, and date and feeding it to `Date_to_Time` sub from the Date::Calc module. Works like a charm too, you know. :) Leonid Mamtchenkov aka TVSET	[reply] [d/l]