Copy of an article I wrote for perl.com originally published on 2003-03-13. I’ve saved it here in case the perl.com version disappears at some point. Some Basic Concepts In order to understand what you might want to do with dates and times, it’s good to have a handle on some basic concepts. Here are some terms that I’ll be using in this article: datetime is not a word, but I will use it as a convenient shorthand to refer to a date and time together, because they are basically the same t...
