ACJavascript,
What you asked for help on, and what you said you are trying to solve are two different things.
  • Determine if something happened less than 24 hours ago
  • Determine if one time stamp is between two other time stamps

    For the first one, you could simply do this: 

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $Cut_Off = time - ( 24 * 60 * 60);
my $First_Sign_In = 1; #some function to get the timestamp - see modul
+e suggestions later
if ($First_Sign_In > $Cut_Off) {
    print "Welcome\n";
}
else {
    print "Sorry, you need to contact me\n";
}

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    You could have a look at Date::Manip or Time::Local for help in converting dates to timestamps.

    The second part of your node - did something happen between two dates, can be solved with the following pseudo code:

  • Convert low end boundary to time stamp
  • Convert high end boundary to time stamp
  • Convert event to time stamp
  • If event greater than low and less than high, move on

    I hope this helps - cheers L~R.

    In reply to Re: Between Two Times??? Help! by Limbic~Region
    in thread Between Two Times??? Help! by ACJavascript

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