Hi Monks

I have an epoch start-date (1135202400) and an epoch end-date (1188252000).

I'd like to loop through each day from start-date to end-date and perform an action for that day. Using a for loop, I tried to increment the number by 86400:

    for (my $i=1135202400; $i <= 1188252000; $i+86400) {
        print ">$i<\n";
    }

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Which obviously didn't work and returned the message:

Useless use of addition (+) in void context at...

Then I tried this: 

    for (my $i=1135202400; $i <= 1188252000; $i++) {
        print ">$i<\n" unless ($i%86400);
    }

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Which returned: 
>1135209600<
>1135296000<
>1135382400<
>1135468800<
>1135555200<
>1135641600<
>1135728000<
>1135814400<
>1135900800<
>1135987200<
...

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a value for each day, except for the first value which, if converted to date format, turns out to be the same day as that of the start-date value, just 2 hours later...

I just need to loop through each day, from the start-date to the end-date, and when I convert the value back to date format the time must be displayed as 00:00:00 for each day, and not 02:00:00. Preferably I'd like to loop only once through each day to return a value, and not 86400 times. Thanks for any input / advice.

In reply to Loop through epoch days by Scrat

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