Someone else here will probably be able to offer a more elegant solution, but I've done something like: 

my $time; # Scalar to store the time in appropriate format for compari
+sons with the database time stamp. 
my ($year, $month, $day, $hour, $minute, $second); # for assembling ti
+me stamp.
my @localtime = localtime; # Buffer to store time returned from localt
+ime function

$year = 1900 + $localtime[5];
$month = $localtime[4] + 1; # because localtime starts counting months
+ at 0
$month = sprintf("%02d", $month); # force 2 digit format.
$day = sprintf("%02d", $localtime[3]);
$hour = sprintf("%02d", $localtime[2]);
$minute = sprintf("%02d", $localtime[1]);
$second = sprintf("%02d", $localtime[0]);

$time = $year.$month.$day.$hour.$minute.$second;

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And then compared the time string against what I was trying to validate. This node is where I was using the code snips above, and it was fairly specific to the format I was validating against, but I don't see any reason why you couldn't do a similar comparison between $userDate and $time if you've got your $time string formated according to your needs.

In reply to Re: Simple Date Validation by starX
in thread Simple Date Validation by Trihedralguy

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