if (length $mday == 1){
    $mday = "0".$mday;
}

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Can we please put an end to this idiom now? I think I first saw it in a MSA program, and now am boggled at how far it has gotten. Definitely a bad book or website you got that from, sir. I'd distrust the rest of the stuff you got there.

As for "yesterday", just subtract 86400 from "time", and do localtime() on that. It'll be wrong (by an hour) twice a year, but close enough for most purposes.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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In reply to •Re: localtime() by merlyn
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