Duh... :-[
This is interesting: the str2time ignored the
inconsistent day-of-week parameter, as evidenced
by the (correct) epoch-time.
It turns out that, to protect even the most
redimentary patient info, the data in my small
sample was fabricated... without a calendar.
Thanks !! I'll manually fix the sample before
writing any more code...
Jim
-Original Message-
From: Rick Measham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 5:23 PM
To: Jim W. Jones
Cc: datetime@perl.org; Jim Jones - Sonic
Subject: Re: inconsistent round trip in Date::Parse (Date::Format)
Jim W. Jones wrote:
The date and time info from the portal log file
looks like this: Mon Aug 3, 2006 3:45 AM (no seconds)
I Perl-ed it into:Mon, 3 Aug 2006 3:45:00 GMT
which is one of the formats which str2time is supposed to parse.
...
As a check, I immediately round-tripped this through time2str, and got
an inconsistent day-of-week: Thu Aug 3 03:45:00 GMT 2006
What have I missed??? Do I have fighting use-statements?
You have bad input data. My calendar shows that August 3rd, 2006 was a
Thursday, not a Monday.
Cheers!
Rick Measham
