Error parsing using Time::Piece

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Re: Error parsing using Time::Piece by kcott (Archbishop) on Apr 28, 2015 at 18:40 UTC
Updating Time::Piece to 1.29 is not the problem. I get the same error under 1.27. `$ perl -MTime::Piece -E 'say $Time::Piece::VERSION' 1.27 $ perl -MPOSIX=strftime -MTime::Piece -E ' say strftime q{%FT%T}, loca +ltime; Time::Piece->strptime( strftime(q{%FT%T}, localtime), q{%FT%T} +);' 2015-04-29T04:18:23 Error parsing time at /Users/ken/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.20.2t/lib +/5.20.2/darwin-thread-multi-2level/Time/Piece.pm line 469.` [download] The error message includes a pathname to the file and a line number. Had you viewed that file and gone to line 469, you would have seen that line is in `sub strptime` and, just a few lines above, you see `sub strftime` (sound familiar?). Looking at the Time::Piece documentation, you'll see that `Time::Piece::strftime` is the "`same as POSIX::strftime (without the overhead of the full POSIX extension)`". To fix, the easiest would be to remove the `POSIX` references. If, for some reason, that's not possible (I've no idea what your real code looks like), you'll need to be specific about which `strftime` you mean, i.e. `POSIX::strftime` or `Time::Piece::strftime`. -- Ken	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Error parsing using Time::Piece by Anonymous Monk on Apr 28, 2015 at 18:48 UTC
This is the line the gives me the error: `... my $date = Time::Piece->strptime("32015", "%m%Y");` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Error parsing using Time::Piece by jeffa (Bishop) on Apr 28, 2015 at 18:54 UTC
You will need to add a leading zero to that: `my $date = Time::Piece->strptime("032015", "%m%Y");` [download] Maybe you could use `sprintf`? `perl -MTime::Piece -le'print Time::Piece->strptime( sprintf( "%06d", " +32015"), "%m%Y" )'` [download] jeffa L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L-- -R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B-- H---H---H---H---H---H--- (the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Error parsing using Time::Piece by Anonymous Monk on Apr 28, 2015 at 19:05 UTC
Re: Error parsing using Time::Piece by jeffa (Bishop) on Apr 28, 2015 at 18:43 UTC
Dealing with these parsing errors can be very painful. It seems to me that %F is not being respected. Consider the following: `$ perl -MTime::Piece -le 'print Time::Piece->strptime( "2015-04-28T11: +33:12", "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S" )' Tue Apr 28 11:33:12 2015 $ perl -MTime::Piece -le 'print Time::Piece->strptime( "2015-04-28T11: +33:12", "%Y-%m-%dT%T" )' Tue Apr 28 11:33:12 2015 $ perl -MTime::Piece -le 'print Time::Piece->strptime( "2015-04-28T11: +33:12", "%FT%H:%M:%S" )' Error parsing time ...` [download] Why don't you change your format string to `"%Y-%m-%dT%T"` and see if that works? (It did for me using Time::Piece v1.29.) jeffa L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L-- -R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B-- H---H---H---H---H---H--- (the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Error parsing using Time::Piece by hippo (Archbishop) on Apr 28, 2015 at 18:45 UTC
I see the same with version 1.20_01, so it's nothing new. `$ perl -MTime::Piece -E 'say Time::Piece->strptime("2015-04-28T19:40:0 +0", q{%Y-%m-%dT%T})->strftime;' Tue, 28 Apr 2015 19:40:00 UTC $ perl -MTime::Piece -E 'say Time::Piece->strptime("2015-04-28T19:40:0 +0", q{%FT%T})->strftime;' Error parsing time at /usr/lib64/perl5/Time/Piece.pm line 469.` [download] If you avoid `%F` for now that should serve as a workaround.	[reply] [d/l] [select]