Re: How to see if a time is within two other times.

Ninja67 wrote: 
I need to modify a script in such a way that it checks the current time
(according to the server) to determine if the current time falls within
a particular time span such as midnight to 4:00 am.

For example:
if (current_time > earliest_time_request_accepted && current_time <
latest_time_request_accepted) {
   ...process request...
} else {
   print "please try your request at a different time.";
}

I struggle with date-time values in perl.

and what happens when you try to translate this to Perl?

a few points:

If you're going to compare dates and times, then you're going to need to compare epoch seconds.

bob 567 $ perldoc -q epoch
Found in /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.2/pod/perlfaq4.pod
     How can I take a string and turn it into epoch seconds?

             If it's a regular enough string that it always has
             the same format, you can split it up and pass the
             parts to "timelocal" in the standard Time::Local
             module.  Otherwise, you should look into the
             Date::Calc and Date::Manip modules from CPAN.

That if statement would be better off written the (OK - an) other way round in order to avoid confusion

ie
if($endtime > $checkTime && $checkTime > $startTime){

}

As per usual, make sure

use strict;
use warnings;

are set at the top of your script.

Mark
.