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Posted by Philluminati on May 12, 2008, 5:41 am
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> This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq4.pod, which
> comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to
> reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community
> to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete
> perlfaq is athttp://faq.perl.org.
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> 4.14: How can I compare two dates and find the difference?
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> (contributed by brian d foy)
>
> You could just store all your dates as a number and then subtract. Life
> isn't always that simple though. If you want to work with formatted
> dates, the "Date::Manip", "Date::Calc", or "DateTime" modules can help
> you.
>
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Honestly, what is the point of posting this? It really doesn't help.
It makes the newsgroup harder to read and they are never relevant.
It's basically spam. If the person doesn't google the question before
posting then they sure as hell aren't going to search the group. So
unless the correct answer to the question is on the groups active
discussion page, it really is a waste of space and bandwidth.
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