/--- On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 04:44:50PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | there doesn't seem to be a module that takes datetimes as described by ISO | 8601 (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html) and converts them to a | unix timestamp. several other modules came close, but are missing a few | things. | | this module will provide a single function ToUnixTime | (suggestions welcome on a better name) that converts datetimes like: | 19951231T235959 | 2001-10-11T11:43:00,0 | 2002-07-14T22:34:59+00:00 | into unix timestamps. | | if a time offset is not present in the string, UTC is used. a different | default timezone may be passed in as an argument like so: | DateTime::ISO::ToUnixTime($datetime, zone=>'EST5EDT') | | comments? \---
I would be happy if you could export that part of the function, which returns an array of values ($year, $month, $day, etc...). This method is better, because: - UNIX timestamps depend on the timezone - UNIX timestamps has limited range. Szabó, Balázs (dLux) -- < Szabó, Balázs Tibor - dLux >
