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Re: script with date operation??



Michael Marsh wrote:

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.

Thanks stephen and michael! The suggestions are great. The one-liner is bulls-eye, michael. Guess i'll go with it.



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