On Sunday 16 December 2007 04:31, pauld wrote:
>
> im using Date::Manip to convert dates and times eg 2007:08:02 12:23
> to allow me to sort them, which it does .
> but I cant see how to get the number back into a human -readable
> format
Use the UnixDate() function that comes with Date::Manip.
> print scalar localtime($var{STARTTIME}); prints the long string . is
> there a better way to get just the bits I want , or do I have to
> parse the string I get from print scalar localtime output ?
Use localtime in list context instead.
perldoc -f localtime
John
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