Re: crashing on the full moon

[email protected] (Chris Dolan)
Newsgroups perl.fwp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jan 12, 2005, at 3:53 PM, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 06:59:35PM -0800, Josh Goldberg wrote:
>> A (java programming) coworker presented this challenge while 
>> discussing
>> a hypothetical situation:
>>
>>> * Chris troubleshoots and sees that David (in a moment of sheer
>>> insanity) coded the site to crash at 5:42pm on every full moon (do I
>>> hear a Perl Monger side say there is a Perl library for just such a
>>> thing -- and it's only 2 lines?).
>
> Acme::Apache::Werewolf is probably something like what he wants.
>

Haha!  Sweet, I like the embedded lyrics in that module.  Here's a 
solution in one line:

    use Astro::MoonPhase;gmtime=~/17:42:/&&abs((phase time)[2])<1&&die;

Chris
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