--- James Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good Morning all
Good morning, James. =o) > Since I'm still a Newbie when it comes to Perl , so my question may > sound fairly simple to the group but here goes.. > I need to create a file that has the localtime - 1 day and -2 days. > and then redirect this to 2 separate files. "- 1 day and -2 days" ??? Do you mean the local time *minus* a day and then 2? Try this: my $day = 60 * 60 * 24; # seconds, minutes, hours my $now = time; my $yesterday = $now - $day; my $previous = $yesterday - $day; Then you can print the dates/times like this: print scalar localtime($_),"\n" for ($now, $yesterday, $previous); for which I currently get Tue Nov 12 09:04:13 2002 Mon Nov 11 09:04:13 2002 Sun Nov 10 09:04:13 2002 Now, are you saying you want to set the file datestamp to those times??? If so, check out the utime() command in perlfunc. perldoc -f utime Have fun. ;o] __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
