I'm working on a small project for a friend's website that takes our modern calendar and converts it into a fictional calendar to be displayed on his webpage.

It'd be very easy were the dates similar, but of course nothing's that simple. The problem is the months are all either 30- or 29-days long, and start on March 20th.

I'm interested in converting a localtime result of March 20th for example into "1st day of the Hare," but am not interested in writing 366 (can't forget about leap years) seperate if/elsif statements.

Is there an easier way (and of course TMTOWTDI) to 'translate' the dates?

Sample calendar is as follows:
- Month1 -- March 20 - April 18
- Month2 -- April 19 - May 17
- Month3 -- May 18 - June 16
- Month4 -- June 17 - July 15
And so forth

Thanks

Hi,
if you translate the dates to timestamps then you cant just add the diference and translate back. Which es basically my idea: to have the real date subtract (ot add) a fixed amount of time.

To work with dates you should check the faq number 4:

there look for the "Date" section and it will give you pointers. If my memory doesnt fail, I think there are some modules of your interest like Date::Calc, Time::Local. But I dont have them installed to check them :P

I hope this is useful
Cheers!

Thanks demon_vox!

I was looking last night at a Date::Convert module that may do the trick, but I won't be able to have it installed on the machine the script is running on. I'll poke a bit through the manpage and see what I can do -- this project really would have been easier had the months and days been the same, but of course, not everything is as easy as we'd like!

Thanks for the suggestion

Awesome suggestion! I think I have it figured out.

And, so if anyone else is interested in doing a similar thing, I converted everything to the equivalent day of the year; For example, if the 1st of the year is March 20th (as above), localtime[7]-79 will return 1, the first of the year. Then, as in the above example, 1-30 is Month1, 31-60 is Month2, et cetera. This not only gives the correct day of the year but also the correct month for later retrieval.

Wonderful!