in reply to DATE =TO= DAY OF WEEK
Either of the above mentioned ways will work.. however, I
would recommend using the Date::Calc method for one main
reason: It's not dependant on the number of bits that the
underlying machine uses to store its dates in. Both will
work the same way for dates between the years 1901 and
2038 (roughly), but beyond that range, localtime will
return incorrect values on 32 bit systems (which all x86
machines still are). I don't know if this will be an
issue for you, but it's a good thing to know.
On a minor issue, you might also prefer Date::Calc because it lets you specify dates in a more intuitive way than Time::Local, which makes you subtract 1 from the month, since it's 0 based, and subtract 1900 from the year (I believe).
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