Thank you, this is the easiest and most directly applicable method for
my purposes.
All I need to do is answer the question: "Is MM/DD/ hh:mm:ss more
than 10 days ago? 10 minutes?" and this makes it very easy!
Thanks again!
On 02/12, Briac Pilpr? said something like:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 1
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:03:00 -0600, Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How might I convert a date/time string to epoch seconds?
>
> For example, taking "02/05/2002 02:31:14" and convert to epoch seconds.
One easy way to do it is to use the standard Time::Local module:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use str
My favorite way is to use Date::Parse
(http://search.cpan.org/doc/GBARR/TimeDate-1.10/lib/Date/Parse.pm)
use Date::Parse;
my $epoch = str2time("02/05/2002 02:31:14");
It comes with the Time-Date bundle
(http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=TimeDate) which also includes the method
time2str() for
