Number of Days Between 2 Dates.

[Fred Goldberg]

I have the current releace of ActiveState for Win32.

I'm confused by the shear number of time and date modules and exactly what
they are capable of doing. I need help calculating the number of days
(including weekends) between two dates. All dates are in the format of
mm/dd/yyyy. This format can be changed if needed.

What module is best to use and what is the format of the function. Thanks.

Fred

 

[Brendon Caligari]

I have the current releace of ActiveState for Win32.

I'm confused by the shear number of time and date modules and exactly what
they are capable of doing. I need help calculating the number of days
(including weekends) between two dates. All dates are in the format of
mm/dd/yyyy. This format can be changed if needed.

What module is best to use and what is the format of the function. Thanks.

Time::Local should do the trick

The docs are pretty straight forward. timelocal is most likely the
function you're after.

B.

 

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

I'm confused by the shear number of time and date modules and
exactly what they are capable of doing. I need help calculating the
number of days (including weekends) between two dates. All dates
are in the format of mm/dd/yyyy. This format can be changed if
needed.

What module is best to use

Probably Date::Calc.

and what is the format of the function.

See the docs for the module. Reading the docs doesn't confuse you,
does it?

 

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Time::Local should do the trick

Well, I agree, even if I suggested Date::Calc in another message.
Reminds me of another thread in this group:
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]

 

[Jim Keenan]

I have the current releace of ActiveState for Win32.

I'm confused by the shear number of time and date modules and exactly what
they are capable of doing. I need help calculating the number of days
(including weekends) between two dates. All dates are in the format of
mm/dd/yyyy. This format can be changed if needed.

What module is best to use and what is the format of the function. Thanks.

Fred

As other posters have stated, try Date::Calc. I use it in production
code at work. IIRC, ActiveState has a ppm for Date::Calc which means
that you don't need to have an installed C-compiler to install it. And
DeltaDays is indeed the function you want to use.

jimk