Re: How to find the last date of the previous month?

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In the spirit of TIMTOWTDI, here's an example using Time::Piece. The advantage of using Time::Piece is that as of Perl 5.10, it's bundled with Perl core. (As is its companion module Time::Seconds.)

use 5.010;
use Time::Piece;
use Time::Seconds qw( ONE_DAY ONE_HOUR );

sub last_day_of_last_month ()
{
    my $now = localtime;
    my $day = Time::Piece->new(
        $now - ($now->day_of_month * ONE_DAY)
    );
    $day += ONE_HOUR * ($now->isdst <=> $day->isdst);
    return $day;
}

say last_day_of_last_month->mdy('/');
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The daylight savings calculation is a bit of an annoyance. :-(

Yeah, that's right; I just did maths with the spaceship operator! :-)

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

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