Jeff Pang wrote: >>So if you want to translate 31 August 2006 you have to subtract one from the >>month and 1900 from the year: >> >>$ perl -Mstrict -MTime::Local -le 'print timelocal(0,0,0,31,7,106)' >>1157007600 > > John, > > For the instance described by you,both '2006' and '106' are right. > > $ perl -Mstrict -MTime::Local -le 'print timelocal(0,0,0,31,7,106)' > 1156953600 > $ perl -Mstrict -MTime::Local -le 'print timelocal(0,0,0,31,7,2006)' > 1156953600
The reason that '2006' works is because Time::Local makes a guess that '2006' actually means '106'. John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
