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Re: Converting Date to UTC format

[Andrew T. <atr...@ac...>]

use POSIX qw/strftime/;
my $GMtimeZ = strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%SZ", gmtime(time()));
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-- On Apr 3, 12:12am, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
> Subject: Re: Converting Date to UTC format
> Graham Barr <gb...@po...> writes:
> 
> > This is really off-topic for this list, but see Data::Parse and
> > Date::Format
> 
> Yeah (and learn to use http://search.cpan.org), but this reminds me
> there is no module with code for converting to/from GeneralizedTime.
> Not that it's very hard to write, but it would be nice to put routines
> for stuff like this in a module.  I'm sure there are other syntaxes
> who could use utility functions which fit in.
> 
> I can volunteer my code as a start :-)
> 
> Kjetil T.
> 
-- End of excerpt from Kjetil Torgrim Homme --



-- 
and...@uc...                Unix Systems Group UC, Riverside

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.