Re^2: Convert Old Unix Date to Perl and compare


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Re^2: Convert Old Unix Date to Perl and compare

by thargas (Deacon)

on Feb 27, 2012 at 18:19 UTC ( #956492=note: print w/replies, xml )

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shouldn't it be timelocal() from Time::Local instead of mktime()? Or you could use POSIX qw(mktime) instead, but POSIX is a lot to bring in just for this.

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Re^3: Convert Old Unix Date to Perl and compare by JavaFan (Canon) on Feb 27, 2012 at 19:32 UTC
The OP was using mktime, indicating his problem was extracting the pieces of data from the filename, not with the construction of the time. Who am I to second guess him?	[reply]

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