Re: Date function

From: boyd <tbmoore9@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:42:47 GMT

In article <4t3qsqF11g6o6U2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Gunnar Hjalmarsson <noreply@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

boyd wrote:

something like:

my( $day, $mon, $yr ) = ( localtime( time - 24*3600) )[3, 4, 5];
$yr += 1900;
$mon += 1;
my $str = sprintf '%4d-%02d-%02d', $yr, $mon, $day;

would give you the prefix string for your filename.

What about DST? ;-)

Good point. So my method would mess up on one of the DST changeovers if
it ran between midnight and 0100 local. Is that right? What is the
"40000" for in your script?

Boyd
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