On 5/13/06, Stephen R Laniel <steve@laniels.org> wrote:
That sort of work is precisely why I do it in Perl. Because then you start getting into messiness with leap years, timezones, etc., etc., etc. There's a reason that time libraries are hard to write. :-) Perl's done all the work for you; be lazy.
What do leap years have to do with it? Leap *seconds*, maybe, but I'm willing to be off on the count of days by a few seconds. If timezones are a real problem, you can always specify the timezone after the year. date has done all the work for you. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com