On Tuesday 16 March 2004 5:56 pm, Frank Finner wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:54:18 +0000 Gary Stainburn > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sat down, thought > > long and then wrote: > > Hi folks. > > > > I've got a last_updated field on my stock records of type timestamp. > > > > This last_updated field I get using the perl code: > > > > my $timestamp=(stat "$localcsv/VehicleStock.$data_suffix")[10]; > > > > How can I insert the integer timestamp in $timestamp into my table? > > I usually use somethinge like the following little function for getting an > ISO timestamp. The result is suitable for a PostgreSQL timestamp field > (without special timezone). > > # Subroutine for ISO-Timestamp > sub mydatetime > { > my ($time)[EMAIL PROTECTED]; > my ($sec,$min,$hou,$mday,$mon,$yea,$wday,$jday,$sz)=localtime($time); > if ($sec < 10) {$sec="0".$sec;} > if ($min < 10) {$min="0".$min;} > if ($hou < 10) {$hou="0".$hou;} > if ($mday < 10) {$mday="0".$mday;} > $mon++; > if ($mon < 10) {$mon="0".$mon;} > $yea=$yea+1900; > my $t=$yea."-".$mon."-".$mday." ".$hou.":".$min.":".$sec; > return $t; > } > > Regards, Frank.
Thanks Frank, My code's not as padantic, but produces a string hat is acceptable to Postgrresql. my $timestamp=(stat "$localcsv/VehicleStock.$data_suffix")[9]; my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year) =localtime($timestamp); $year+=1900; $mon++; $timestamp="$year-$mon-$mday $hour:$min:$sec"; However, I think I'll use Tom's suggestion and do the conversion in SQL. Gary -- Gary Stainburn This email does not contain private or confidential material as it may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org