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


A. Sinan Unur wrote:
> "Ninja67" <Ninja67@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> news:1120074745.373483.169390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
> > 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.
>
> Time::Local can help:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> use strict;
> use warnings;
>
> use Time::Local;
>
> # 2005/06/29 16:00:00
> my $start = timelocal(0, 0, 16, 29, 5, 2005);
> my $end = $start + (4 * 60 * 60);
>
>
> if($start <= time and time <= $end) {
> run();
> } else {
> expired();
> }
>
> sub run { print "Running\n" }
>
> sub expired { print "Expired\n" }
>
> __END__
>
>
> Sinan
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>
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Very elegant. Thank you. I found a simpler solution for my script,
but yours would work in a larger variety of situations, so I'll
definitely file it away under "good scripts".

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