You might want to try out the Date::Manip package. It has a function &Date_Cmp which compares any two dates. You first read the date through the function &ParseDate in the module, and then compare the dates through &Date_Cmp.
HTH, -tir -- Tirthankar, IGIDR. +91-22-8400919 x275 (r), x593(o), x542(CFL). http://www.igidr.ac.in/~tir RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead. On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Dittrich G. Michael wrote: > I try to find a quick and uncomplicated way to calculate the difference between one >and another date/time: > > @date1 = ($year1, $month1, $day1, $hour1, $minute1); > @date2 = ($year2, $month2, $day2, $hour2, $minute2); > > @deltaDateTime = "difference"(@date1, @date2); > > print "@deltaDateTime\n"; > 0 0 0 12 35 > > anyone any suggesting for a quick way ...and covering issues like 28Feb 30/31 >month-length ... > > (perl 5.005_3 on FreeBSD) > > thanks in advanced > > > Michael G. Dittrich > > -- > berlin.de - meine stadt im netz. Jetzt eigene eMail-adresse @berlin.de sichern! > http://www.berlin.de/home/MeineStadt/Anmeldung > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
