Hello monks,

are there any CPAN modules which allow you to create a time from a string using the formats that CGI.pm recognizes: 

+30s                              30 seconds from now
+10m                              ten minutes from now
+1h                               one hour from now
-1d                               yesterday (i.e. "ASAP!")
now                               immediately
+3M                               in three months
+10y                              in ten years time

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I've created a session class (which wraps Apache::Session) for a web app and want to be able to do something like $session->store(login => 1, expires => '+10m') (I know that CGI::Session can do this - it was my 1st choice - but I can't use that module as it does not work on Win98 )
thanks for any pointers.

In reply to How to create CGI.pm like time strings? by Arunbear

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