Im trying to get a value from a timestamp field
into a format that strftime can manipulate.
UNIX_TIMESTAMP(field) doesnt seem to produce
a value strftime can use.
If you hadnt guessed im in (mod) perl
Id prefer not to have to use mysqls time functions
to extract the values needed. Strftime
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 08:49:34PM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote:
Im trying to get a value from a timestamp field
into a format that strftime can manipulate.
Here's an example from the perlfunc man page:
use POSIX qw(strftime);
$now_string = strftime "%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y",
Thats not the problem
heres an example...
#!/usr/bin/perl
use POSIX;
print strftime "%d","980596729";
980596729 is the value give when i go
select UNIX_TIMESTAMP(time) from database.
i get this error
Usage: POSIX::strftime(fmt, sec, min, hour, mday, mon, year, wday = -1,
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 10:11:46AM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote:
Thats not the problem
Sorry, my misunderstanding ...
localtime() and gmtime() will convert a Unix timestamp to hours, minutes,
seconds etc, which is exactly what strftime needs:
[johnc@dropbear ~]$ perl -e 'use POSIX; print
Thanks John!
Dean
John Clarke wrote:
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 10:11:46AM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote:
Thats not the problem
Sorry, my misunderstanding ...
localtime() and gmtime() will convert a Unix timestamp to hours, minutes,
seconds etc, which is exactly what strftime needs:
