How do I find the number of days between two dates?
You want to know how many days until a certain date, or how long between two dates. Perl has many different modules to handles dates.
Time::Local
The following program uses the Time::Local module to determine my age in seconds:
The output of this program is something like:
Date::Calc
The Date::Calc module is a very powerful module that allows many different types of date calculations. The follow example calculates how old I am in days:
The output of this example is something like: