At 00:23 2001.06.27, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
>On Jun 27, Walt Mankowski said:
>
>>On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:53:12PM -0500, Steve Howard wrote:
>>> I would suggest using the localtime function. That will work regardless of
>>> OS.
>>>
>>> ($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday, $isdst) =
>>> localtime(time);
>>> ($mon, $year) = ($mon+1, $year+1900);
>>
>>That doesn't quite work, since %m and %d zero-pad their values. If
>>you just need the date in one variable, call localtime as above, then
>>use sprintf to format them correctly:
>
>Or use the POSIX::strftime() function, which uses its own %X formats to
>create a date string.
I've found time2iso() from HTTP::Date simple to use and reliable across OS. There is
also a parse_date() function that might be helpfull for you.
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