<div>In DateTime, you want delta_days... twice.</div><meta charset="utf-8"><div><br></div><div>my $start = DateTime->new(year => 2007, month => 5, day => 15);</div><div>my $end = DateTime->new(year => 2011, month => 1, day => 14);</div>
<div>say sprintf('$%0.2f', 1025 / $end->delta_days($start)->delta_days);</div><div><br></div><div>DateTime is popular because it is accurate, common, standard, extensible, and popular (since popularity is a property that feeds itself), not because it is fast or easy to use by itself (it is neither in my experience).</div>
<div><br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Jay Hannah <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jhannah@mutationgrid.com">jhannah@mutationgrid.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Jan 14, 2011, at 9:03 PM, Jay Hannah wrote:<br>
> What the heck? Why is DateTime so popular? Date::Calc and Class::Date make this trivial.<br>
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</div>See? Easy...<br>
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$ cat <a href="http://j2.pl" target="_blank">j2.pl</a><br>
use 5.12.0;<br>
use Date::Calc qw(Delta_Days);<br>
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say sprintf('$%0.2f', 1025 / Delta_Days(2007, 5, 15, 2011, 1, 14));<br>
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$ perl <a href="http://j2.pl" target="_blank">j2.pl</a><br>
$0.76<br>
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