date and time functions in perl

Hello there!
Could anyone please suggest a way to do calculations with date and time in perl. Could you please suggest the functions related to date and time.

Thanks in advance
Dups

Depending what format of the date and time your using, using the time(); function works very well for calculating date and times. Or check into the POSIX qw(strftime) module

Mickalo

[Edited by mickalo on 02-27-2001 at 12:31 PM]

use POSIX qw/strftime/;

$time = strftime( "%A, %B %d, %Y", localtime(time()) );

would return the time in "Weekday, Month Day, Year" format.

[Edited by JonLed on 02-27-2001 at 02:02 PM]

Hello there,
Thank u very much JohnLed and mickalo. What u suggested became very useful to me.

I would like to know whether there are more functions related to date and time. I want to find the days between 2 dates. Also I have to add the no: of days to a date and get the new date.

Could u suggest some sites which provide this information

Thank u again
Dups

http://search.cpan.org/doc/JHI/perl...POSIX/POSIX.pod

All kinds of great stuff in the POSIX module (well beyond just date/time functions). I'm sure you can get what you're looking for by combining some of the functions in creative ways .

Hello

I found a module DateCalcLib.pm somewhere. It does all the calculations that i need . Wouln't that be good. Is that a good module?

But it is not provided by cpan. Could u please suggest from where i can get it.

Thank u
Dups

I don't know , and I'm sure it's a good module, it's just that POSIX is standard distribution with perl, so you'll more than likely have it installed already. I suggest you just figure it out.