Like Coyote said, use Date::Manip - it'a a darn good module and it will do alot more than what you would probably expect.

Now though - to get a list of the first Monday in every month starting Jan 2001 - Dec 2001, I used the following snippet of code and got every single one: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Date::Manip;

my $base = "2000123123:59:59";
my $start = "2001010100:00:00";
my $stop = "2001123123:59:59";
my $syntax = "0:1*1:1:0:0:0";
my @dates = &ParseRecur($syntax,$base,$start,$stop);

foreach my $day (@dates)
{
 print "\$day is [$day]\n";
}

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This prints out: 
$day is [2001010100:00:00]
$day is [2001020500:00:00]
$day is [2001030500:00:00]
$day is [2001040200:00:00]
$day is [2001050700:00:00]
$day is [2001060400:00:00]
$day is [2001070200:00:00]
$day is [2001080600:00:00]
$day is [2001090300:00:00]
$day is [2001100100:00:00]
$day is [2001110500:00:00]
$day is [2001120300:00:00]

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And yes, I did verify the dates :)

Update:You may want to use substr($day,0,8); to get the first 8 characters which is the date - anything after that is the time
- oakley
Embracing insanity - one twitch at a time >:)

In reply to Re: Getting Weekly Dates by oakley
in thread Getting Weekly Dates by mothra

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