>>>>> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:57:36 -0400, David Golden <xda...@gmail.com> said:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Andreas J. Koenig
> <andreas.koenig.7os6v...@franz.ak.mind.de> wrote:
>> > If someone can suggest a lightweight alternative to generate ISO 8601
>> > timestamps, that works too. I'm not adverse to putting it inline
>> > using regular list form of gmtime if someone wants to volunteer some
>> > code. (Time::Piece was a handy shortcut.)
>>
>> Maybe something like
>>
>> use POSIX qw(strftime);
>> print strftime "%FT%TZ", gmtime;
>>
>> is good enough?
> Ick. POSIX. That's heavy. Thinking about it, in UTC it should be
> easy. I suspect this will do:
> my ($year,$month,$day,$hour,$min,$sec) = (gmtime)[5,4,3,2,1,0];
> print sprintf("%4d-%02d-%02dT%02d:%02d:%02dZ",
> 1900+$year,1+$month,$day,$hour,$min,$sec);
> Anyone see any issues with that?
No, this is fine and is actually what I used for ages but I translated
"lightweight" differently than you:)
--
andreas
