Re: problem with 'strftime' on unix systems

[davorg]

Looks like you're right and %s isn't supported in all strftime implementations.

Seems a bit pointless here tho'. Your variable $t already contains the number of seconds since the epoch. Why would you want to convert it?

[gellyfish]

Probably to change the timezone at a guess.

/J\

[davorg]

But the epoch isn't effected by timezone. It's the number of seconds since 00:00 on 1st Jan 1970 GMT. I can't see how you'll ever get different answers from:

print strftime '%s', localtime;

and

print time;

Am I missing something?

[gellyfish]

No I don't think you are missing something, it was just the only semi-plausible reason that I could think of that someone might think they want to do that.

/J\