Alrighty - I have a program that when ran, needs to determine its current date (no biggie there), but it needs to know to take that date and then distinguish when it should run - "Every other Thursday" if that's the case, "after 5pm on Monday", "daily at 2pm", etc. What makes it a hair more interesting is that it needs to be able to distinguish between numeric dates and word style dates (word style being like Wednesday, Feb 21, 2001)

I have looked at Date::Manip and it's just a beast - IMHO, the docs are at the very least somewhat difficult to understand - kicker is that it would do everything I needed if I could just figure it all out.

I also looked at Date::Calc and it appears to do what I need/want as well, but I have no idea if its a worthy module or what have you...

I know I could try to write something to do all the forming of the needed info, but I also know there has to be an easy to understand, already created, perl module to do all of this... I have searched the monastery already and couldnt seem to find anyone asking a question similar to this.

Have any of you had an issue like this and worked with a good/easy perl module or created something to do these things? I would like to refrain from doing loads of calls to *nix "date" if possible - not to mention buttloads of mathematics..

-oakley
Embracing insanity - one twitch at a time >:)

In reply to Good & Easy Date Module? by oakley

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