I'm facing a unique problem. Well, the background: I need to convert a date and time string (in format <yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss>) into seconds since epoch, and perform some mathematical operation on it. After googling, I decided to use Date::Parse's str2time() function. I downloaded the module from CPAN and even wrote an extememely simple test program to test it. It is here:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Date::Parse;

print str2time("2011-03-18 02:39:04") . "\n";
print str2time("1970-01-01 00:00:10") . "\n";
print str2time("2012-01-05 14:23:09") . "\n";

exit;
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Happy with it, I proceeded to use it in my actual code, which is a class file. In it, however, I get an error saying str2time() is not defined! Below is my class:

##########
use strict;
use warnings;
use Date::Parse;

<some more code here>

$dashboardAlarmStartTime = $dashboardAlarm->startTime;
print "dashboardAlarmStartTime: " . $dashboardAlarmStartTime . "\n";
$maxDashboardAlarmForGroupStartTime = $maxDashboardAlarmForGroup->star
+tTime;
print "maxDashboardAlarmForGroupStartTime: " . $maxDashboardAlarmForGr
+oupStartTime . "\n";
my $timeDiff = str2time($dashboardAlarmStartTime) - str2time($maxDashb
+oardAlarmForGroupStartTime);
print "timeDiff: " . $timeDiff . "\n";
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I get an error at the line my $timeDiff = str2time(). Where am I going wrong? I tried the following to verify that the module is indeed present:

perl -MDate::Parse -le 'print $INC{"Date/Parse.pm"}'
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And the output was: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Date/Parse.pm Please help me out here, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks! Trupti