On 4/2/08, Chas. Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:02 AM, Jeff Pang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 4/2/08, Richard Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > What is the best way to indicate past hour from current time without
> > > using a module?
> > >
> > > so if it's 12:00, then 11:00-12:00
> > >
> >
> > I'd prefer using POSIX module since it's a built-in perl module.
> > The code would be simple,
> >
> > use strict;
> > use POSIX 'strftime';
> >
> > print get_time(time - 3600),"-",get_time(),"\n";
> >
> > sub get_time {
> > my $timestamp = shift || time;
> > return strftime("%H:%M",localtime($timestamp));
> > }
>
> This is one of those seemingly simple questions that turns out to be
> much more complicated than you originally think. For instance, what
> is one hour less than 2008-03-09 03:00:00? If you answered 2008-03-09
> 02:00:00 you would be wrong in the USA as that hour does not exist.
It sounds strange to me.
Why 2008-03-09 02:00:00 doesn't exist for USA people?
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