[Canberra-pm] Date modules?

[Paul Bryan]

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On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 16:10, Michael Still wrote:
> Ok,
>
> I am officially confused by the many perl date modules available. 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?
>
> Cheers,
> Mikal

Have a look at http://perl.plover.com/qotw/

Quiz number 2 (there's archives of the mailing lists) was related to date 
manipulating. The discussion is quite interesting actually and has led me to 
the belief that programming with dates is best done with some prior contract 
with satan!

Seriously though, there is a very good discussion on a number of different 
modules and the pitalls involved in handling dates. There was even a 
disucssion on Julian vs. Gregorian dates which you may find relevant.

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