SPUG: File dates
David Poncelow
panache at wolfenet.com
Thu Dec 30 12:08:02 CST 1999
Quite a simple solution, actually. The builtin function
localtime($date) will return an array containing all of the
requisite information for the date (month, day of month, etc.)
If used in a scalar context (i.e. scalar(localtime($time)) ) it
will return a nicely formatted date string, which it sounds
like is what you want.
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Daniel V. Ebert wrote:
>
> I have used the stats FILEHANDLE command to extract the "last modified" time
> of a file.
>
> ($dev, $ino, $mode, $nlink, $uid, $gid, $rdev, $size, $atime, $mtime,
> $ctime, $blksize, $blocks) = stat FILEHANDLE;
>
> This returns the time in a numrical format: 946568470
> I'm guessing that this is the number of seconds since the epoch ... is there
> an easy way to translate that into a calendar date? Or is there a different
> command that would return the modify time in a different format?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> ---
> Dan Ebert
> Seanet Internet Services
>
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