Sorry about that, you're absolutely right. I got several responses and they solved my problem. Thanks. And now back to the topic ... > ---------- > From: Neil Kandalgaonkar[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 12:40 PM > To: Tubbs, Derric L; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: Checking for valid dates <-- off topic! > > At 10:33 -0800 1999-11-02, Tubbs, Derric L wrote: > >Is there a reasonably easy method to make sure that an entered date is > >valid, I.E. is not 30 Jan 99? I am using Time::Local to convert a date > >entered through an HTML form into the epoch offset (or whatever you call > it) > >and would like to make sure that valid dates are entered. Thanks > > This isn't on topic. Could people please stick to the list topic? If you > are looking for general perl help, please try other avenues. > > > Anyway, as you may already know, Time::Local does not reject impossible > dates. > > [neil@tux neil]$ perl -MTime::Local -e 'print scalar localtime ( timelocal > (0,0,0,30,1,1999) ) . "\n"' > Tue Mar 2 00:00:00 1999 > > As usual, if you have a problem you know other people have dealt with you > should always check the CPAN <http://search.cpan.org/> first. > > Date::Calc has a check_date function. > > > > -- > Neil Kandalgaonkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Systems Architect, Stylus Inc. http://www.stylus.ca/ > > >
