Hi Monks!
I am working on a program and I have to calculate if the date (stored) coming from the database is older than today's date. I have this sample code that works, my question is if this is an efficient way of doing this, here the code I have:
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser warningsToBrowser/;
use Date::Calc qw(Delta_Days);
use Date::Calc qw[Add_Delta_Days Today];

my $q = new CGI;

print $q->header;

my $got_date = "1/1/2010"; # this is only to show, but this is the for
+mat of the date I will be getting from the db table.
my ($got_month,$got_day,$got_year) = split /\//, $got_date; # split da
+te in 3 parts with / as delimiter

my ($year, $month, $day) = Today();

my @today = ($year, $month, $day);
my @date_got  = ($got_year, $got_month, $got_day);

my $difference = Delta_Days(@date_got, @today);

print "There were $difference days between Today and Stored Date\n\n";

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Thanks for the Help!

In reply to Subtracting certain number of days from current date. by Anonymous Monk

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