[PBP-pm] Working with dates

[Jerry Wilcox]

> I'd like some feedback on best practices for working with dates in
> perl.  Here's what I came up with:
>
[snip]
> Use CPAN's Date::Calc to do any math or comparisons of dates. See
> Date::Calc's recipes

I like to use only ISO date representations and I almost exclusively
use Sullivan Beck's excellent Date::Manip routines for manipulating,
converting, and calculating dates. There are faster routines around
which might be worth looking into if I were doing millions of such
calculations, but I seldom encounter situations where those are
required. Date::Manip also supports Holiday and Event descriptions,
which I use extensively along with calculations of business days.

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