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nope..

after some discussion in the chatterbox it was determined that the only way to use modules (and still comply with the security policies on that box) is to just copy/paste them into my script. it sucks, but its the only way. :/

so, keeping that in mind - any ideas for my sub get_next_business_day { } ? :)

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Re^5: Calculating next business day (weekends/holidays taken into account)
by grep (Monsignor) on Jun 25, 2009 at 02:46 UTC
    The old way you had to do it was Time::Local (which you are using) and localtime. Convert back and forth between date representations and epoch time.

    Create a constant that contains the value of a days worth of seconds (60 * 60 * 24). When you need to increment a day get the epoch and add a days worth of seconds, then convert that back to your date. Once you have that date, check if that new date is a business day or not. I would use noon as your HH:MM:SS when you convert from date to epoch.

    This is a lot more work and you have to deal with localtime's 0 and 1 based ranges. Break everything down to small manageable subs. One for date to epoch and the other way.

    grep
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