Re: [MacPerl] Perl date comparisons

[Nathaniel Irons <irons@espresso.hampshire.edu>]

On 11/16/98 at 2:58 PM, Greg@tradesvc.com (Aiken, Greg) wrote:

> Yes, I realize I could 'hack' at this function myself.  But there
> are probably enough special rules (ie; leap years - unless evenly
> divided by 100, daylight savings, etc...) that I would not be
> knowledgeable about - that my seconds surely would not match the
> seconds returned by 'time()'. Any help would be appreciated.  

You might look at the Benchmark module (in the standard distribution)
and see if it can't be adapted to your needs.  The timediff function
compares two timestamps and returns the difference.

  -nat



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