in reply to Month Dates

instead of using a module, maybe you can use something like this: 
my $month = (localtime())[4];
my $last_month = (($month)%12);
my %months = (
  0 => "Dec",  1 => "Jan", 2 => "Feb", 3 => "Mar", 4 => "Apr", 
  5 => "May",  6 => "Jun", 7 => "Jul", 8 => "Aug", 9 => "Sep",
 10 => "Oct", 11 => "Nov",
 );
print "$months{$last_month}\n";

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Re^2: Month Dates
by johngg (Canon) on Mar 01, 2007 at 23:04 UTC
    I'm puzzled as to why you use a hash with December associated with zero and a modulo operation. That will only work for the first decrement of a month. To go back another month you would need a different hash with November associated with zero, and so on and so forth. I think it might be better to have a single hash with zero for January to eleven for December (as returned by localtime) and a simple algorith for decrementing the month value, something like

    my %months = (
   0  => q{Jan},
   1  => q{Feb},
   2  => q{Mar},
   3  => q{Apr},
   4  => q{May},
   5  => q{Jun},
   6  => q{Jul},
   7  => q{Aug},
   8  => q{Sep},
   9  => q{Oct},
   10 => q{Nov},
   11 => q{Dec},
   );
my $month = (localtime)[4];
$month --;
$month = 11 if $month < 0;

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    This way you can keep decrementing the month until the cows come home.

    Cheers,

    JohnGG

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