[Canberra-pm] Date modules?

[Iain 'Spoon' Truskett]

* Michael Still (mikal at stillhq.com) [03 Jan 2003 16:11]:

> I am officially confused by the many perl date modules available.

Someone tried rationalising them a while ago. They all have their little
quirks though.

> All I
> need is to able to:

>  - convert to a Julian date
>  - convert from a Julian date
>  - get a day of week (as a string)
>  - and get a string representing the month

> Anyone want to recommend one?

Time::Piece should serve you admirably.

http://search.cpan.org/author/MSERGEANT/Time-Piece/


cheers,
-- 
Iain.