From: Hal Fulton Date: 2004-03-18T18:05:17+09:00 Subject: Re: Thinking about a date-matching algorithm... Gerard A.W. Vreeswijk wrote: > On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:40:06 +0900, Hal Fulton wrote: > > >>So the question becomes: Given a date (typically "today") and a list >>of recurring tasks, how do I determine which ones need to be displayed? > > > I don't get it. Are you asking for something along the lines of Perl's date-parser in Date::Manip? > If so, then I think you should have a look at the source(s) of the relevant perl functions / methods in Date::Manip. I don't see what parsing has to do with this. I'll check out these links, though. Hal