On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 09:44:34AM +1100, daron wrote:
> This is probably not the best place to
> ask but does anyone know where you can
> get hold of gnu date for Solaris
> 2.5/2.6? I need the date -d
> functionality. (specify a date in any
> format and convert to any format)
> Alternativly, does anyone know if there
> is a quick and easy way to do this in
> perl?

 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/sh-utils-2.0.tar.gz

just from looking at what's on my system now:
 "Date::Parse"
makes at least a simple attempt at parsing date strings
(doesn't seem to handle relative times (eg: "2pm yesterday") tho)

I'm sure there's something better on CPAN

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 - Gus
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