From 429e1c5d388f2e0c3a44e1cbd9bab30242d09930 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Young <ian@iay.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:10:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Calculate the array of month names, rather than using a
 static one that has to be updated every month.

---
 charting/Months.pm | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/charting/Months.pm b/charting/Months.pm
index 3de08522..98c0712e 100755
--- a/charting/Months.pm
+++ b/charting/Months.pm
@@ -4,18 +4,30 @@
 # Months.pm
 #
 use File::stat;
+use Date::Manip::Date;
+use Date::Manip::Delta;
 
-@months = (
-	'2006-12',
-	'2007-01', '2007-02', '2007-03', '2007-04', '2007-05', '2007-06',
-	'2007-07', '2007-08', '2007-09', '2007-10', '2007-11', '2007-12',
-	'2008-01', '2008-02', '2008-03', '2008-04', '2008-05', '2008-06',
-	'2008-07', '2008-08', '2008-09', '2008-10', '2008-11', '2008-12',
-	'2009-01', '2009-02', '2009-03', '2009-04', '2009-05', '2009-06',
-	'2009-07', '2009-08', '2009-09', '2009-10', '2009-11', '2009-12',
-	'2010-01', '2010-02', '2010-03', '2010-04', '2010-05', '2010-06',
-	'2010-07', '2010-08', '2010-09', '2010-10', '2010-11', '2010-12',
-	'2011-01',
-);
+@months = ( );
+
+$date = new Date::Manip::Date;
+$date->parse_date('2006-12-01') && die('could not parse base date');
+
+$now = new Date::Manip::Date;
+$now->parse('today') && die('could not parse today');
+
+$oneMonth =  new Date::Manip::Delta;
+$oneMonth->parse("1 month") && die('could not parse delta');
+
+#
+# Enumerate all month beginnings that have already happened, then stop.
+#
+while ($date->cmp($now) < 0) {
+	local $dateStr = $date->printf('%Y-%m');
+	# print "date string $dateStr\n";
+	push @months, $dateStr;
+	
+	# move on one month
+	$date = $date->calc($oneMonth);
+}
 
 1;