Re: [Boston.pm] Need time since 1900-01-01 00:00:00

2004-07-29 Thread John Abreau
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 22:17, Bob Rogers wrote: The difference between that and Google's number is due to the fact that 2208984820 is the number of seconds in an average year, which is not a whole number of days -- it's more like 365.24 days. In fact, 2208988800 seconds divided by 86400

[Boston.pm] Need time since 1900-01-01 00:00:00

2004-07-28 Thread Ranga Nathan
Is there a quick way to convert a time stamp (date time) as seconds since 1900-01-01 00:00:00? time() uses 1970 as base (epoch). But the system I am dealing with on mainframe uses 1900 as base. Looked at Date::Calc and Date::Manip but they dont seem to handle this. Rather than hand-roll some

Re: [Boston.pm] Need time since 1900-01-01 00:00:00

2004-07-28 Thread John Abreau
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 20:58, Ranga Nathan wrote: Is there a quick way to convert a time stamp (date time) as seconds since 1900-01-01 00:00:00? time() uses 1970 as base (epoch). But the system I am dealing with on mainframe uses 1900 as base. Looked at Date::Calc and Date::Manip but

Re: [Boston.pm] Need time since 1900-01-01 00:00:00

2004-07-28 Thread Ron Newman
On Jul 28, 2004, at 8:58 PM, Ranga Nathan wrote: Is there a quick way to convert a time stamp (date time) as seconds since 1900-01-01 00:00:00? time() uses 1970 as base (epoch). time() + (24*60*60)*((365*70)+int(70/4)) 24*60*60 is the number of seconds in a day 365*70 is the number of days in 70

Re: [Boston.pm] Need time since 1900-01-01 00:00:00

2004-07-28 Thread Bob Rogers
From: John Abreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 28 Jul 2004 21:21:03 -0400 On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 20:58, Ranga Nathan wrote: Is there a quick way to convert a time stamp (date time) as seconds since 1900-01-01 00:00:00? time() uses 1970 as base (epoch). But the system I am

Re: [Boston.pm] Need time since 1900-01-01 00:00:00

2004-07-28 Thread Ranga Nathan
PM To: John Abreau [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ranga Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [Boston.pm] Need time since 1900-01-01 00:00:00 From: John Abreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 28 Jul 2004 21:21:03 -0400 On Wed, 2004-07-28