How to convert a Greenwich Mean Time to an ordinary date/time?

[cyan01]

Hi, Experts,

Suppose I have a number which is the value returned by perl library function time, i.e.

my $utc = time;

How can I convert $utc into an ordinary datetime, e.g. mmddyyHHSS or vise versa?

Thanks!

 

[PaulTEG]

(@date)=localtime(); get an array of components 
foreach (@date) {  #$date[4]++ months start at 0
  print "$_\n";    #$date[5]+=1900; 105
}
$date=localtime();  #get a scalar eg Wed Feb 23 20:53:35 2005

Also look up the Date modules on

http://search.cpan.org

HTH
--Paul

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[cyan01]

Thank you, Paul. I guess I did not make myself clear. What I want is to find a way in perl to convert any time values in UTC format into a readable format by people.

For intance, how to convert '1101859200' into mmddyy format?

Thanks!

 

[tweenerz]

Try this:

use POSIX qw(strftime);
print strftime "%m%d%Y%H%M%S", localtime;

Output:

02232005142854

 

[mlibeson]

Try using the Date::Manip module.

Michael Libeson

 

[cyan01]

tweenerz,

Thank you for you posts.

However, what I want is how to convert '1101859200' into a readable format in perl?

 

[PaulTEG]

you could write a function to calculate how many seconds have elapsed since Jan 1, 1970, or you could get up off your ar$e, and investigate the localtime function, use the Date::Manip modules as suggested by mlibeson (Michael), or wait for a knight in shining armour, who knows a lot about chivalry, horemanship, but feck all about Perl

The choice as they say is yours

--Paul

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