If you are not using any of the Perl modules, you will be better off writing your own tailored to your requirements.
how is the best way to handle end-of-month/beginning-of-new-month changes, such as when $currentDay - 1 = 0 (the first of the month) because sometimes you then want it to = 30 and sometimes = 31 (or 28/29 for March 1st).
I'd done something similar in the past. I had written my own lastDayofMonth routine that also checked leap year. This is because we know in advance all possible lastDayOfMonth values
$lastDay = lastDayOfMonth($month); #returns a number indicating last d
+ay
...
sub lastDayOfMonth
{
    my $month=shift;
    <sanity check here>
    return 29 if($month==2 and isLeapYear($currYear));
    <and so on>
      
}

[download]

In reply to Re: Date Handling in Perl by cheekuperl
in thread Date Handling in Perl by joeymac

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.