Re: Getting previous dates from the current date

DateTime is also very good. That, combined with the two mentioned above, are the three "standard" datetime modules in Perl. Each has its proponents and many of us will use more than one, depending on the project.

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Re^2: Getting previous dates from the current date by Smylers (Pilgrim) on Mar 29, 2005 at 17:01 UTC
DateTime is also very good. I agree; the `DateTime` suite is excellent: it has a very well-thought-out interface, does pretty much anything that any of the other modules do, and correctly covers all the awkward corners of date- and time-handling that you don't want to think about. This thread has a bunch of different responses, but none of them look to me anywhere near as simple as: `print DateTime->now->subtract(days => 7)->date` [download] Update: And, after actually bothering to read the other suggestions (rather than just noticing how complicated they look), the hand-rolled ones (avoiding modules for the date arithmetic) all seem to be wrong as well. So that's another advantage of `DateTime`: it quietly gets correct things that you haven't even bothered to think about. Smylers	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^2: Getting previous dates from the current date
by Smylers (Pilgrim) on Mar 29, 2005 at 17:01 UTC

DateTime is also very good.

I agree; the DateTime suite is excellent: it has a very well-thought-out interface, does pretty much anything that any of the other modules do, and correctly covers all the awkward corners of date- and time-handling that you don't want to think about.

This thread has a bunch of different responses, but none of them look to me anywhere near as simple as:

print DateTime->now->subtract(days => 7)->date
[download]

Update: And, after actually bothering to read the other suggestions (rather than just noticing how complicated they look), the hand-rolled ones (avoiding modules for the date arithmetic) all seem to be wrong as well. So that's another advantage of DateTime: it quietly gets correct things that you haven't even bothered to think about.

Smylers

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