convert my date into local time or epoch time

kaka_2 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Monks

I am writing a program which read a file and receives a value (time) from it. for further logic i have to use this time but the time i read is in iso8601 format. Exactly it looks as example "2007-12-24T18:21Z" and This is UTC time.

Can someone tell me how can i convert it to my localtime or epoch time.

Thank You

-KAKA-

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Re: convert my date into local time or epoch time (oracle) by Anonymous Monk on Oct 28, 2013 at 09:51 UTC
Can someone tell me how can i convert it to my localtime or epoch time. Yes, the oracle can Re^2: Date plus Time sort from file ( Time::Piece->strptime/strftime example, Time::Piece	[reply]
Re^2: convert my date into local time or epoch time (oracle) by kaka_2 (Sexton) on Oct 31, 2013 at 11:53 UTC
Hello, I downloaded the Piece.pm Module and installed on my machine but still i dont get how it can convert date in example to localtime or epoch time. Could you share idea Thank You. -KAKA-	[reply]
Re: convert my date into local time or epoch time by chrestomanci (Priest) on Oct 28, 2013 at 12:01 UTC
DateTime::Format::W3CDTF on CPAN can convert that format for you. Then just call `epoch()` on the resultant DateTime object. eg: `my $time = DateTime::Format::W3CDTF->parse_datetime("2007-12-24T18:21Z +"); print "epoch time: ".$time->epoch();` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: convert my date into local time or epoch time by marinersk (Priest) on Oct 28, 2013 at 13:59 UTC
LOL -- I am happy to see modules addressing this. A long time ago I found myself having to create a reciprocal function for `localtime()`-- essentially the same as this `epoch()`function. It was an interesting effort, trying to write code to reciprocate perfectly a function whose code was not immediately available to me. I opted to go with an estimate-confirm-refine algorithm. It zeroed in on the epoch value which would return the exact results from `localtime()`as was provided by the input. It was kind of fun to write.	[reply] [d/l] [select]