Re: adding days to date

2007-11-30 Thread jagdish eashwar
Hi Alex, Thanks to you too. Thank you for the quick and helpful response. I think I am using the object oriented stuff without really understanding it. But that's one way of learning, isn't it? Thanks again. On Nov 30, 2007 8:03 PM, Alex Teslik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19

Re: adding days to date

2007-11-30 Thread jagdish eashwar
Hi Zefram, Thanks. Things are a lot clearer to me now. Jagdish On Nov 30, 2007 7:50 PM, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jagdish eashwar wrote: > >I came across some unexpected behaviour in datetime. In the following > >script, I first define $date1. Then I set $day1 = $date1. Then I add 2 >

Re: adding days to date

2007-11-30 Thread Alex Teslik
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:36:30 +0530, jagdish eashwar wrote > Hi, > > I came across some unexpected behaviour in datetime. In the following > script, I first define $date1. Then I set $day1 = $date1. Then I add > 2 days to $day1. Why does $date1 also get incremented? > > #!/usr/bin/perl > use stri

Re: adding days to date

2007-11-30 Thread Zefram
jagdish eashwar wrote: >I came across some unexpected behaviour in datetime. In the following >script, I first define $date1. Then I set $day1 = $date1. Then I add 2 days >to $day1. Why does $date1 also get incremented? Because a DateTime object doesn't represent a date-and-time per se; it impleme

adding days to date

2007-11-30 Thread jagdish eashwar
Hi, I came across some unexpected behaviour in datetime. In the following script, I first define $date1. Then I set $day1 = $date1. Then I add 2 days to $day1. Why does $date1 also get incremented? #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use DateTime; my $date1 = DateTime->new(year => 2007,