On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 17:26:03 +0530 (IST), sreangsu acharyya said:
Look for module Date::Manip
It comprehensive. You can use required code from it.
>
> Hi,
> is there anyway by which one can compare 2 date strings as returned
> by
> "date" in bash.
>
> I can ofcourse parse it with something like
>
> "^(???) (???) ([1-9]*) (([1-9]*:)*)([1-9]*) .* [1-9]*$"
> Thu Dec 28 17:19:35 IST 2000
>
> and then compare the year month and day. But I am looking for a
> simpler
> solution ( i.e without parsing )
>
> thanks in advance
> sreangsu
>
>
> p.s.
> No Perl please ;)
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