Re: Converting Date to UTC format

[Kjetil T. H. <kje...@li...>]

Andrew Tristan <atr...@ac...> writes:

> Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
> > [...] this reminds me there is no module with code for converting
> > to/from GeneralizedTime.

> use POSIX qw/strftime/;
> my $GMtimeZ = strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%SZ", gmtime(time()));

yeah, that's the "to" code.  the "from" code is a bit more work, but
less than a dozen lines sans comments.  besides, sometimes you'll want
to let the user enter a date, and it may make more sense to store it
in localtime form, or with time zone information included.


Kjetil T.