[Buffalo-pm] Getting Date/Time 1 Minute Ago...

[Jim Brandt]

One more example that should be platform independent:

use DateTime;

my $dt1 = DateTime->now();
print $dt1->hms() . "\n";
my $dt2 = $dt1->clone->subtract( minutes => 1 );
print $dt2->hms() . "\n";



Dan Magnuszewski wrote:
> Yeah, that's what I was looking for!
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> On 9/25/07, *Ben. B.* <bennymack at gmail.com <mailto:bennymack at gmail.com>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     If you deal with a Unix time_t to start with, it really should be as
>     simple as subtracting 60 seconds from it. Then use POSIX::strftime to
>     format it however you like.
> 
>     perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -MPOSIX -e 'my $time = time; printf( "NOW:
>     %s, ONE MINUTE AGO: %s\n", scalar localtime $time, scalar localtime
>     $time - 60 );'
> 
>     I can't think of any situations where that wouldn't work, but I'm
>     often wrong...
> 
>     Ben
> 
>     On 9/25/07, Dan Magnuszewski <magnachef at gmail.com
>     <mailto:magnachef at gmail.com>> wrote:
>      > All,
>      >
>      > I'm looking for a module or Linux command that will allow me to
>     get the
>      > date/time one minute ago. I know this sounds trivial (just
>     subtract 1 from
>      > minute) but it can get messy  at midnight on the first of the
>     month, or the
>      > first day of the year, etc. It's not hard, just a pain to code
>     that up, and
>      > it'd be nice if there was already something that could do the
>     work for me
>      > :-)
>      >
>      > Does anyone know of anything that will do this?
>      >
>      > -Dan
>      >
>      >
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Jim Brandt
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