Thank you, this is the easiest and most directly applicable method for my purposes.
All I need to do is answer the question: "Is MM/DD/YYYY hh:mm:ss more than 10 days ago? 10 minutes?" and this makes it very easy! Thanks again! On 02/12, Briac Pilpr? said something like: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:03:00 -0600, Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How might I convert a date/time string to epoch seconds? > > > > For example, taking "02/05/2002 02:31:14" and convert to epoch seconds. > > One easy way to do it is to use the standard Time::Local module: > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > use strict; > use Time::Local; > > my $time_string = "02/05/2002 02:31:14"; > > my ($mday,$mon,$year,$hours,$min,$sec) = split(m![/ :]!, $time_string); > my $time = timelocal($sec,$min,$hours,$mday,--$mon,$year); > > print "Epoch: $time\n"; > > __END__ -- Shawn Leas [EMAIL PROTECTED] I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one -- it wasn't doing what I was doing. -- Stephen Wright -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]