On Oct 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> How can I convert it to a readable date? >>> >>> $now=time; >>> >>> print $now return 1066442632 >>> >>> I had tied perldoc time but it says: >>> No documentation found for "time". >>> >> >> perldoc -f time >> perldoc -f localtime > >Thanks, now I know how to use perldoc. But how do I convert that time? >I have an application that stores it in that format.
You were just shown; read the documentation for the localtime() function: perldoc -f localtime It takes the time value as its argument, or uses time() if you don't give it one: $now = localtime; $then = localtime($some_number_of_seconds); -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
