question on Time module

kprasanna_79 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Revered Monks,
I am forming a time stamp with DATE::Format module. My intension is to get a time stamp which is exactly one hour less than the current timestamp. Is there a way by which i can do something like

$time -1;
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where i get the time less than 1 hour. Any suggestion would be highly appreciated
-Prasanna.K

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Re: question on Time module by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 03, 2008 at 22:23 UTC
`my $time = time - 60*60;` [download] May produce odd (but correct) results near a DST time change.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: question on Time module by almut (Canon) on Jun 03, 2008 at 22:23 UTC
`time() - 60*60` will give you "now less than one hour" in seconds since the Epoch (i.e. unixtime), which you can then pass to the respective formatting functions...	[reply] [d/l]
Re: question on Time module by igelkott (Priest) on Jun 03, 2008 at 22:20 UTC
Make use of another date module such as Date::Manip, Date::Calc or Time::Piece (core module in 5.10). These may also be able to replace what Date::Format is doing for you.	[reply]