On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 04:18:37PM -0700, Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer
Analyst --- WGO wrote:
> Siegfried Heintze wrote:
> > Given the current date, I want to compute the date of the Sunday
> > before. There are a lot of date packages on CPAN. Can someone
> > recommend one that would be well suited for this calculation?
> > Siegfried
>
> How do you want to handle Sunday? Is that the previous Sunday or the
> day you run? I would just roll my own using localtime. Since the 6th
> item is the day of the week, you can use that calculate the prior
> Sunday. I have my own little routine which I use in my scripts which
> takes an array reference and a secondary time variable.
>
> Here is a start( not tested):
Too much work!
$ perl -MDate::Manip -le 'print UnixDate Date_GetPrev("today", "sun"), "%F"'
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