Greetings Fellow Monestary Inhabitants, I come, humbly beseeching the assistance of the Monks, Saints, Prelates, etc on a Date, particularly POSIX::strftime, problem I've found.

The Setup

I ahve a perl script that runds on a Win2K box via scheduler and parses some network logs. The way it knows what to do is get today's date with

my $time = POSIX::strftime "%Y%m%d",localtime;

and them the following happens to parse yesterday's files: 

my $newtime = ($time -1);
my $log = $newtime.".log";

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As many of you already can see, things broke this morning because 20041001 -1 is 20041000 and not 20040930. So, I'm looking for a fix. I've dug a bit through CPAN and looked at Activestates's info. Many possible modules don't want to compile properly on Win32.

Another complication, I use pp to package my scripts into Win32 executables.

Thanks for any and all assistance,

monger

Monger +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Munging Perl on the side

In reply to Date Trickiness by monger

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