Hi! Im trying to create a script that would give me a
particular date by giving a week number exp.

First I need to enter fix reference date:
$reftime = 102049345; #(Nov. 5 2001)
#this would be my reference
then the user would enter a week number:
example would give a result like this:


week      result
1      Nov. 5 2001 Monday - Nov. 11 2001 Sunday
2      Nov. 12 2001 Monday - Nov. 18 2001 Sunday
~      ~
9      Dec. 24 2001 Monday - Dec. 30 2001 Sunday
10      ~
Now I know that the "time" function returns a long number I think 10 digits,
I need to understand what is being returned by "time" so I
could understand, if it Is possible to just add an amount to the "time" to get the needed result.
Exp. to get week 1 is : localtime($reftime + (1 * 7))
So basically I just add the number of days to $reftime which is in raw ?time?, but by how much.

And also if it is possible to revert the result of a
localtime(time)
Nov. 11 2001 Sunday = localtime(time) ;
Time = Nov. 11 2001 Sunday #this is for the $reftime,
if I could enter the normal result of A localtime(time) and get the raw "time".

And if there is a script like this that I could study?

Summary:
The meaning of what is returned by ?time?? 1006450348
And if it is possible to revert the result of localtime(time);
or am i a approaching this the wrong way?

In reply to time & localtime() function Q? by Gerryjun

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.