Calendar Calculator

I don't understand what you want to do.
If you set a variable to the current date, and another variable to a date 14 days later, then don't you already know how they compare?

Hello Ozo,

Sorry, The second date variable would have to be calculated from value of the 1st date variable that was contained in a text file.  Example: something like this!

The data file would look something like this:
submittal1|04/20/98|
submittal2|04/24/98|
submittal3|04/28/98|
... and so on ....

and the script would do something like this:
for each LINE in data file

SUBMITTAL=??? (awk on LINE getting 1st column)
ENTERED_DATE=04/20/98 (awk on LINE getting 2nd column)
RESPOND_DATE=???  (a calculated date 2 weeks after the entered_date)

if (today's date) is > respond_date then
  send email notifying user that the submittal $SUBMITTAL
  that was due on $RESPOND_DATE is overdue

Hope this helps
JAK

I could suggest an answer, but I'm afraid you may have a problem with it about 600 days later...

Thats Ok, This program may be need then.  But for now it
sure would be helpful, in the ways we are doing things now!.

Is this a good place for perl?

Yes, using Time::Local::timelocal in perl would have been one of my suggestions.
(Setting a large time zone offset or Zeller's congruence would have been the others)

I have to go for now, but I'll try to be back later if you need more specific help.

Yes, please expand on the perl solution.

use Time::Local;
$now = time;
while( <> ){
        ($ss,$mm,$dd,$yy)=split('[/|]');
        $due = timelocal(0,0,6,$dd,$mm-1,$yy)+60*60*24*14;
        next if $due > $now;
        ($date=localtime($due))=~s/ \d\d:\d\d:\d\d/,/;
        open(M,"|/usr/lib/sendmail -t") || warn $!;
        print M "To: $user\nSubject: overdue\n\nsubmittal $ss that was due on $date is overdue\n";
        close M || warn $!;
}

Thanks again, just what i needed.