in reply to Difference between dates

UPDATE: I found it. This works:

Good. Just for reference, to convert '2014-04-15' to a UNIX timestamp: 

use Date::Parse;
$time = str2time('2014-04-15');
print scalar localtime $time,"\n";
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Tue Apr 15 00:00:00 2014

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perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'

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