Or, What a fool am I.

I am writing a little script to pull some stuff out of my company's weblog files. They're named in the form companyname.com-%Y%m%d_log, e.g., companyname.com-20020423_log.

I want to let the user of the script tell it whether to work on this month's logs, or last month's.

Here is how I am setting the date string (to grep the right files) right now, depending on whether the user asked for this month or last: 

$this_month = strftime ($format, localtime());
$last_month = strftime ($format, localtime (time - 2678400));

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It seems like there should be a better way, but I (as a Perl non-genius) haven't been able to find it.

Of course, I could just cleanup the logfile directory, but what fun would that be?

In reply to where does the time go? by Anonymous Monk

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