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Re: How to find yesterdays date (was: Date)

by merlyn (Sage)
on Mar 12, 2001 at 15:09 UTC ( [id://63794]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to How to find yesterdays date (was: Date)

There's always the old standby (joke) answer: 
my $yesterdays_date = localtime;
sleep 86400;
print "Yesterday, it was $yesterdays_date\n";

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And of course, this code breaks near the DST boundaries.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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Re: Re: How to find yesterdays date (was: Date)
by Tyke (Pilgrim) on Mar 12, 2001 at 18:04 UTC
    If you're going to dust this one off, you could also mention the standard optimisation: 
     my $yesterdays_date = localtime;
 sleep 86400;
 print "Yesterday, it was $yesterdays_date\n";
 sleep -86400;

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    Yes, yes, I know it's sad...

    Update: Can't claim credit... I believe that belong to Ilya Zakharevich, otherwise it would have been even sadder, and I wouldn't've dared post.

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