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:
>
> [johnc@dropbear ~]$ perl -e 'use POSIX; print strftime("%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y",
>localtime(980596729)), "\n"'
> Sat Jan 27 22:58:27 2001
>
> Another way, if you merely want the time formatted like that and don't
> want a custom format, is to use the output of localtime() or gmtime()
> in a scalar context:
>
> [johnc@dropbear ~]$ perl -e 'print scalar(localtime(980596729)),"\n"'
> Sat Jan 27 22:58:27 2001
>
> Cheers,
>
> John
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