<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jul 3, 2012, at 3:45 PM, <a href="mailto:richard@rushlogistics.com">richard@rushlogistics.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">I am lost trying to write a simple script that tells me how many days until the next approaching holiday. has anyone ever done anything similar or know of anything helpful. I've looked at Date::Manip but that still leaves me with the cumbersome task of finding out which holiday is the next one from a given date.</span></span></blockquote></div><div><br></div>The standard for dates & times today is in the DateTime hierarchy.<div><br></div><div><a href="http://datetime.perl.org/">http://datetime.perl.org/</a><br><div><br></div><div>xoa<br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br>--<br>Andy Lester => <a href="mailto:andy@petdance.com">andy@petdance.com</a> => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance</div></div>
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