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Re: date minus one

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:28:30 -0800
Message-ID: <bf46380503301028301dd4d@mail.gmail.com>


Well, I would normally use perl, but this was a ready made off the shelf solution.

No point writing code when you have something that fits the bill.

-- 
Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist



On Mar 29, 2005 6:01 PM, Graeme St. Clair <Graeme.St.Clair_at_hds.com> wrote:

> Why wouldn't you just use Perl "time() - 86400" (# seconds in a day), and
> then transform as desired with gmtime or whatever? (In theory it might be a
> second off if you did it at half a second past a midnight with a leap
> second...)
>
> Rgds, GStC.
>
>
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Received on Wed Mar 30 2005 - 13:32:12 CST

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