On Nov 4, Scott Taylor said:
I have a date in UT that looks like this:
"2005-11-02 01:36:00.0"
Can anyone tell me the best way to subtract 8 hours from it, or to convert
it to PDT?
I'm reading up on Date::Manip, but I don't know if that is going to help,
yet.
Date::Manip can probably do it, and it can also cook you a three-course
meal and help you find your wallet. For a slightly lighter-weight
solution, consider the simple Date::Parse (which comes with Perl). It can
handle the format you've provided:
use Date::Parse;
my $gmtime = str2time("2005-11-02 01:36:00.0", "UTC");
Now you have the number of seconds in $gmtime. Subtract 8 hours by
subtracting 60*60*8 seconds from that.
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