Date Question -

They have: 109 posts

Joined: Apr 1999

I am fairly new in Perl, and Im thinking about creating a stats program. Now I havent had any experience with dates, so how would I get my program to know the date for each day? so that it can print out the hits for the specific site in that day?

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They have: 5,633 posts

Joined: Jan 1970

Nothing easier then that but there are many ways to do it.

If you have unix open a pipe to the /usr/bin/date/

Otherwise this always works:
# Stores Date and Tin in string format
$time = localtime (time);
# Splits it up in the different parts
($day, $mon, $dayNumber, $timeVal, $year) = split " ", $time, 5;

And next time you have a problem with Perl, safe yourself some time and look into the perl man pages.
If you have Windows, note that you can make a full text search with the search tool, so you can find the right man page.

Later,

Malte

PS: If you want a good stats program use hitbox.com + windows viewer -> I love it!!!

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Malte Ubl
http://goKewl.com
Germany

They have: 109 posts

Joined: Apr 1999

So that will get the locoal time of where the server is located, or where the user is located?

They have: 5,633 posts

Joined: Jan 1970

This is the time of where the server is located.

I dont think there is a way to find out what time zone your visitor lives in, but maybe there is.

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Malte Ubl
http://goKewl.com
Germany

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