Path: usenet.cis.ufl.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!psgrain!nntp.teleport.com!usenet From: sb@sdm.de (Steffen Beyer) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc Subject: ANNOUNCE: Date::DateCalc 1.5 Followup-To: comp.lang.perl.misc Date: 14 Mar 1996 21:09:04 GMT Organization: sd&m GmbH & Co. KG Munich, Germany Lines: 37 Approved: merlyn@stonehenge.com (comp.lang.perl.announce) Message-ID: <4ia1tg$mfv@nadine.teleport.com> Reply-To: sb@sdm.de NNTP-Posting-Host: linda.teleport.com X-Disclaimer: The "Approved" header verifies header information for article transmission and does not imply approval of content. Xref: usenet.cis.ufl.edu comp.lang.perl.announce:290 comp.lang.perl.misc:23957 Dear folks, I've uploaded a new version of my Date::DateCalc module, version 1.5, to the CPAN. The reason for this new version is that someone asked for a decoding routine for dates in american format, i.e., in the order month-day-year. There is now a new program called "demo_us" included in the distribution which contains a subroutine "decode_date_us" which does exactly this. Beware also that you need a compiler capable of handling ANSI C prototypes and typedef's in order to successfully build the module. (The GNU gcc is recommended and garanteed to work) If you used the "shipped with" C compiler "cc" of SunOS or HP-UX to build Perl, you may have to edit the Makefile (after generating it with "perl Makefile.PL") in the following way: change 'CC = cc' to 'CC = gcc' and change 'CCCDLFLAGS = -pic' to 'CCCDLFLAGS = -fpic' (Thanks to Jim Anderson for proposing this patch!) Have fun with this module! Yours, -- Steffen Beyer mailto:sb@sdm.de |s |d &|m | software design & management GmbH&Co.KG phone: +49 89 63812-244 | | | | Thomas-Dehler-Str. 27 fax: +49 89 63812-150 | | | | 81737 Munich, Germany. .