Archive::Zip returns incorrrect 'file last modified date'

[jeanluca]

Dear Monks

I need the last modified time from the files in a zipped archive. Here is my test code

#! /usr/bin/perl -l

use strict ;
use warnings ;
use Data::Dumper ;
use Archive::Zip qw( :ERROR_CODES :CONSTANTS );

# Read a Zip file
   my $zip = Archive::Zip->new();
   unless ( $zip->read( 'out.zip' ) == AZ_OK ) {
       die 'read error';
   }

my @members = $zip->members();
foreach my $element(@members)
{
printf("%d %s  %s\n",
  $element->lastModFileDateTime(),
  scalar(localtime($element->lastModFileDateTime())),
  $element->fileName()
);
}

Output:

983734011 Sun Mar  4 20:26:51 2001  dir3/
983734011 Sun Mar  4 20:26:51 2001  dir3/file3

However, here is the output from unzip

$> unzip -l out.zip
Archive:  out.zip
  Length     Date   Time    Name
 --------    ----   ----    ----
        0  05-02-09 18:55   dir3/
        0  05-02-09 18:55   dir3/file3
 --------                   -------
        0                   2 files

Note that the dates do not match. I guess there is a logical explanation for this, any suggestion ?

Cheers
LuCa

UPDATE: thnx derby, lastModTime solved it!!

[derby]

Looking at the docs for Archive::Zip, lastModFileDateTime returns a date time stamp in MS-DOS format while lastModTime returns the epoch seconds. You either should just print lastModFileDateTime *or* send lastModTime to the localtime function.

Update: I do not not enough about MS-DOS date time stamps ... just printing it will not work but the lastModTime method is probably what you're after.

Update 2: Doh! MS-DOS epoch start is Jan 1, 1980. I should have figured that out from the dates in the OP.