[lug] Date Conversion Routine

[Arthur Hostmark]

The perl module I have used most for date calc and reformating is
Date::Manip.  Maybe that would work for you.

David Morris wrote:
> 
> 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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