Re^5: Converting from "time" into a nice string?

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in reply to Re^4: Converting from "time" into a nice string?
in thread Converting from "time" into a nice string?

The strings you're dealing with are (presumably) UNIX epoch time, the number of seconds elapsed since (usually) 00:00:00 January 1, 1970 UTC. The timezone determines the adjustment from UTC to your local timezone:

#!/usr/bin/perl

for my $tz (qw[GMT America/Chicago Europe/London]) {
    local $ENV{TZ} = $tz;
    print "$tz: " . localtime '1226667500', "\n";
}

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GMT: Fri Nov 14 12:58:20 2008
America/Chicago: Fri Nov 14 06:58:20 2008
Europe/London: Fri Nov 14 12:58:20 2008