How to compare dates in Perl

sainiamit25

Hi All,

I have two dates of the following format

Wed Jul 11 18:32:46 2007

How can i compare them? I want to use comparison to run another peice of code.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Cheers,
Amit

KevinADC

either you convert your human readable time stamps into epoch seconds using the Time::Local module, which is a core module so nothing has to be installed:

perldoc: Time::Local

Or use a dtae/time module, like DateTime, which is way more robust but comes with a steeper learning curve and may need to be installed as it is not a core module:

cpan: DateTime

sainiamit25

Hi Kevin,

Thanks a lot for your suggestions. I never wanted to install any module (some security reasons ;-) ) and you gave me right directions. In between i used POSIX and mktime function to convert the date into timestamp (epoch). It is working but it needs values 6 values eg sec, min, hour, day etc... i will try your suggestion.

Cheers,
Amit

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