I'll be interested in any other solutions people have because I've got this
going in a couple of programs now... Check out Time::timelocal(). It allows
you to pass inthe results of localtime and bet back the seconds since the
epoch. Since the results of localtime are things that you can actually
parse from a command line this timelocal thing becomes pretty usefull. You
might do something like:
$date = <>; #let's say you know they will enter it in mm/dd/yy format
($mon, $day, $year) = split !/!;
$year += 100;
$seconds = timelocal ($mon, $day, $year);
BTW this probably won't work as it is because I'm going by memory and as I
recall time local needs more info than m/d/y so you will probably need to
generate this. Check out the documentation on timelocal and also perlfaq4
for some info.
Hope this helps,
Peter C.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I try to write a program that will executes a command on a specific time
> inputted by a user. I don't know how you can compare the time of the user
> with the computer clock ?
>
> Can anyone help me to do the. I'm a beginner.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Michiel
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