* spelling and grammar fixes
* How can I compare two dates and find the difference?
+ rewrote answer to mention the several Date packages on CPAN
Index: perlfaq4.pod
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RCS file: /cvs/public/perlfaq/perlfaq4.pod,v
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diff -u -d -r1.65 perlfaq4.pod
--- perlfaq4.pod 4 Jun 2005 04:12:40 -0000 1.65
+++ perlfaq4.pod 2 Aug 2005 22:16:30 -0000
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@
my $week_of_year = strftime "%W",
localtime( timelocal( 0, 0, 0, 18, 11, 1987 ) );
-The Date::Calc module provides two functions for to calculate these.
+The Date::Calc module provides two functions to calculate these.
use Date::Calc;
my $day_of_year = Day_of_Year( 1987, 12, 18 );
@@ -436,15 +436,12 @@
=head2 How can I compare two dates and find the difference?
-If you're storing your dates as epoch seconds then simply subtract one
-from the other. If you've got a structured date (distinct year, day,
-month, hour, minute, seconds values), then for reasons of
accessibility,
-simplicity, and efficiency, merely use either timelocal or timegm (from
-the Time::Local module in the standard distribution) to reduce
structured
-dates to epoch seconds. However, if you don't know the precise format
of
-your dates, then you should probably use either of the Date::Manip and
-Date::Calc modules from CPAN before you go hacking up your own parsing
-routine to handle arbitrary date formats.
+(contributed by brian d foy)
+
+You could just store all your dates as a number and then subtract. Life
+isn't always that simple though. If you want to work with formatted
+dates, the Date::Manip, Date::Calc, or DateTime modules can help you.
+
=head2 How can I take a string and turn it into epoch seconds?
@@ -593,7 +590,7 @@
This is documented in L<perlref>, and although it's not the easiest
thing to read, it does work. In each of these examples, we call the
function inside the braces of used to dereference a reference. If we
-have a more than one return value, we can contruct and dereference an
+have a more than one return value, we can construct and dereference an
anonymous array. In this case, we call the function in list context.
print "The time values are @{ [localtime] }.\n";
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brian d foy, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
