Re: Date function

boyd wrote:
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?

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking of. Maybe not a disaster in this case, but always worth considering when dealing with dates.

What is the "40000" for in your script?

That's 'approximately' 12 hours, i.e. well enough time to make the result DST safe. :)

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