Date manipulation

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

Hi ,I need the perl code to find the current date and day of week.Also i need to get the dates and Day of week for all days of next week based on current date

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Re: Date manipulation by moritz (Cardinal) on Aug 28, 2012 at 06:46 UTC
Take a look at Date::Simple, it makes it simple to do what you want. Perl 6 - the future is here, just unevenly distributed	[reply]
Re: Date manipulation by Corion (Patriarch) on Aug 28, 2012 at 07:13 UTC
Have you looked at localtime (and Time::Local)? What part of your needed functionality do they fail to provide?	[reply]
Re: Date manipulation by influx (Beadle) on Aug 28, 2012 at 08:07 UTC
Usually I tend to use DateTime, but I've recently started using Time::Piece, which overrides the default localtime() into a really useful method that returns an object. It's far more lightweight than DateTime and does most of the stuff I normally want to do anyway.	[reply]
Re: Date manipulation by Anonymous Monk on Aug 28, 2012 at 12:52 UTC
Search for "Date" on http://search.cpan.org and take your pick of over 5,000.	[reply]