Re: [mh] HELP!! Time comparisons... UHG

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Don't know what OS you're running, but you might try copy the code in this url as "floating.pm" somewhere within MH's @INC.

http://code.sixapart.com/svn/movabletype/tags/mt3.32/extlib/DateTime/TimeZone/Floating.pm 

(BTW, I haven't found obvious references to floating.pm for Debian Etch).

Rick

---- xhawkx <xh...@ya...> wrote: 
> 
> Mark.. thanks for that reply..
> I have included the DateTime and I now get a compile error that seems to
> indicate that DateTime.pm has an include (down in the timezone include) that
> is looking for floating.pm.
> 
> floating.pm isn't in the MH distribution.
> I can't seem to find it anywhere on my system, or as a seperate download
> from anywhere on the internet...
> Can anyone help with this? Or possibly another method to accomplish my task?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Mark E. Perkins-2 wrote:
> > 
> > On 2008/08/30 17:56, xhawkx wrote:
> > 
> >> Can I take a string date/time and convert it to an epoch time?
> >> 
> > 
> > There are lots of ways to get the job done, but an easy way is with
> > DateTime.pm (an older version of which is part of the mh distribution).
> > Sample code included below.
> > 
> > Mark
> > 
> > 
> > use DateTime;
> > 
> > # get current epoch, print it, extract time components
> > my $epoch = time();
> > print "epoch: $epoch\n";
> > my($sec,$min,$hr,$mday,$mon,$yr,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime($epoch);
> > 
> > # convert components back to epoch
> > my $dt = DateTime->new(
> >                        year      => $yr + 1900,
> >                        month     => $mon + 1,
> >                        day       => $mday,
> >                        hour      => $hr,
> >                        minute    => $min,
> >                        second    => $sec,
> >                        time_zone => 'US/Eastern'
> >                       );
> > 
> > my $new_epoch = $dt->epoch();
> > 
> > 
> > # print new epoch & diff (which should be 0 but could be 1)
> > print "new_epoch: $new_epoch\n";
> > print "epoch_diff: ", $new_epoch - $epoch, "\n";
> > 
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