Re: [MacPerl] reverse localtime

[Ken Williams <ken@forum.swarthmore.edu>]

eric_rainey@wgbh.org (Eric Rainey) wrote:
>Well, it seems that timelocal() requires all of the arguments, when 
>all I have is day of the year.  And timelocal doesn't even seem to 
>support day of year or daylight savings (according to the pod).

It does daylight savings fine.  But not day of year.

>It just seems that there's a function out there somewhere...but I 
>reckon I'll just have to think out the math (30 days hath 
>Semptember...)

Naw, if you do that you'll almost certainly get it wrong, because it's a nasty
little problem.  Perhaps you'd get it good enough for your purposes, though.

Perhaps you're interested in Date::Manip (quite a big beast, but quite
useful) or Date::Calc (which I've never used, but whose name gets thrown
around quite a bit).


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