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Re: Portable previous dates

by vt220 (Scribe)
on Jul 09, 2011 at 00:31 UTC ( [id://913450]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Portable previous dates

A long while back, after finding these:

http://alcor.concordia.ca/~gpkatch/gdate-algorithm.html
http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ushols.html

I put together the following subs. Please note that I add or subtract 3 in the conversion routines. This allows a modulo function to return the day of the week with 0 equaling Sunday. As in:

$DoW = $gdate % 7;

I humbly submit the following for review...

#=================================================================== # d2g() Convert year, month, and day to date factor G. sub d2g { my($y, $m, $d) = @_; my $g; $m = ($m + 9) % 12; $y = $y - int($m/10); $g = 365*$y + int($y/4) - int($y/100) + int($y/400) + int(($m*306 ++ 5)/10) + ($d - 1); #------- $g += 3; return $g; } #==================================================================== # g2d() Convert date factor G to year, month, and day. sub g2d { my($g) = @_; my($y, $m, $d, $M, $D); #----------------------------------- $g -= 3; #------- $y = int((10000*$g + 14780)/3652425); $D = $g - (365*$y + int($y/4) - int($y/100) + int($y/400)); if ( $D < 0 ) { $y = $y - 1; $D = $g - (365*$y + int($y/4) - int($y/100) + int($y/400)); } $M = int((100*$D + 52)/3060); $m = ($M + 2)%12 + 1; $y = $y + int(($M + 2)/12); $d = $D - int(($M*306 + 5)/10) + 1; return ($y, $m, $d); } #==================================================================== # ValidYMD() Returns true if given year, month, and day is valid. sub ValidYMD { my($y, $m, $d) = @_; my($Y, $M, $D) = g2d( d2g($y, $m, $d) ); return $y == $Y && $m == $M && $d == $D; }

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Re^2: Portable previous dates
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 09, 2011 at 13:29 UTC
    Thanks for the response vt220, will review this code and see what I can learn from it. Darryl

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