On Aug 18, Zeus Odin said: >One small thing. How can today and yesterday have the same date? Their very >definitions denote that these two days are different (except for specific >calendar changes, like the readjustment of the calendar to increate >precision).
Well, if you subtract 86400 seconds from the current time to *attempt* to get the same time a day earlier, you might sometimes fail, such as at 11:55pm on the day that daylight savings time ended. If you subtract 86400 seconds (24 hours), you will NOT be at 11:55pm on the previous day, but rather at 12:55am of the same day, because there was an extra hour in the day. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan % How can we ever be the sold short or RPI Acacia Brother #734 % the cheated, we who for every service http://japhy.perlmonk.org/ % have long ago been overpaid? http://www.perlmonks.org/ % -- Meister Eckhart -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
