[lug] Date Conversion Routine

[David Morris]

I took a look at the Date::Calc module as mentioned below, but unless
I am missing something, it has no routines to convert the day of the
year to a month and day...I also found the gnu shell utilities which
has a date routine that can display day of year given a month and day,
but again it cannot go in the reverse direction as there is no
mechanism for passing a day of year date string into the program.

So...any other suggestions out there?  Alternately, I know there is an
easy algorithm for each direction in the conversion...anyone know what
it is, or know where I can find it?

Thanks,

David


On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Kyle Moore wrote:

> I have to agree. While I haven't had to do specifically what you are
> trying to do here, Date::Calc has made life so much easier when having
> to work with dates. And it being a perl module is an added bonus.
> 
> rm at mamma.varadinet.de wrote:
> > 
> > May i point you to the Date::Calc module for Perl ?
> > (http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Date/Date-Calc-4.3.tar.gz)
> > 
> > This is a perl module that can do quite some date juggling. It's
> > actually  a C-library with perl wrapper code arround it. The lib
> > can be used 'standalone', so if you dread perl you could write your
> > own little C program for the conversion (or maybe even a bash
> > plugin ;-)
> > 
> >  Ralf
> > 
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