how to count number of days in calender year? like, today's 199 of 365

[spewn]

i saw a module called tivoli, but i don't have that on the server...i know how to get the day, month, year, etc...but how to know what day number today is out of the calendar...any ideas?

i'm saving items in a db, and i want to count the number of days ago a certain item was added...

- g

 

[KevinADC]

it's returned by the localtime function:

my $yday = (localtime(time))[7];
print $yday;

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- Kevin, perl coder unexceptional!

 

[travs69]

There are also datetime modules that will allow you do to date date calculations like 4/13/07 - 3/23/07 = x number of days

 

[MillerH]

Or a more generic solution, use Date::Calc

http://search.cpan.org/search?query=Date::Calc

use Date::Calc qw(Day_of_Year);

my $doy = Day_of_Year($year,$month,$day);

- Miller