Time string with addition

[Melly]

Hi,

I want to create sql-standard time (00:00:00) and then add an arbitary number of seconds to it - e.g.

00:00:00 + 61 = 00:01:01

Any suggestions?

[Corion]

Consider doing the calculation in SQL.

As an alternative, do the calculation in seconds and convert it to a string after your calculation using POSIX::strftime.

[Melly]

Hmm... lost a post... anyway, sql not an option since sql won't have access to the required offset... However, I think I've solved it with localtime(+$x) and then extracting the time part... Thanks all...

[MidLifeXis]

Any concerns with leap seconds, DST, or other time trickery? If not, see split, join, sprintf, % and int.

If you are looking for a CPAN module, what have you found, and what didn't work?

[moggs]

The modulo operator will be your key here:

$in = 391;

$hour = sprintf("%02d", int($in / 3600));
$min = sprintf("%02d", int($in / 60));
$sec = sprintf("%02d", $in % 60);

print "$in .. $hour:$min:$sec\n";

However, I agree with the idea of letting SQL handle the complexities of dates and times - being as it's in use anyway.

Moggs

[sundialsvc4]

A quick CPAN search on the terms date time datetime calc (e.g...) should give you all the tools that you could possibly need, should you decide not to do the job in SQL.   (And, frankly, “I’d rather not,” because I tend to find SQL functions both non-standard and sometimes wanting.)

I don’t know if DateTime::Calendar::Mayan has been updated for 2012 yet, or not, but it’s there, nevertheless.

Any way you do it, you do it the same way:   convert whatever string you have into an opaque date/time value, manipulate the value with the tools provided, then convert it back to a string.   Use your own regular expressions, or ones cabbaged from Regexp::Common, to fill in any gaps.