Greetings all, I've been working with Date::Calc a bit recently, and was a little thrown off when I tried to pass in a fractional hour to things like Add_Delta_DHMS. For instance: 
#want 1.1 hours from now
print join(" ",Add_Delta_DHMS(Today_and_Now, 0, 1.1, 0, 0); 
print join(" ",Add_Delta_DHMS(Today_and_Now, 0, 1, 0, 0); 
#prints the same thing!!!

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I've come up with a hack that given a floating point number like 1.1, returns the hours, minutes, and seconds. 
sub hms
{
        my ($hours) = @_;
        my $minutes = ($hours - int($hours)) * 60;
        my $seconds = ($minutes - int($minutes)) * 60;

        return(int($hours), int($minutes), int($seconds));
}

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Is there a better way?

thor

In reply to Fractional times in Date::Calc by thor

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