APM: Unix time help

[Mike Stok]

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Goldilox wrote:

> I also want to convert dates to their corresponding Unix time.

Try a module like Time::Local or one of the date modules from CPAN.

NAME
       Time::Local - efficiently compute time from local and GMT
       time

SYNOPSIS
           $time = timelocal($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year);
           $time = timegm($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year);

DESCRIPTION
       These routines are the inverse of built-in perl functions
       localtime() and gmtime().  They accept a date as a six-
       element array, and return the corresponding time(2) value
       in seconds since the Epoch (Midnight, January 1, 1970).
       This value can be positive or negative.

Hope this helps,

(and sorry for the second post...)

Mike

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