in reply to Re: Date to Epoch (updated)
in thread Date to Epoch

Thank you for the reply

Time::Piece does not work in core 5.10, and I am unable to install any modules

I did run across the following code though:

print -e 'print scalar timelocal(2,16,10,20,2,2018)'

This solution, however would require me to use external variables in some way

echo "2,16,10,10,20,2,2018" | perl -e 'print scalar timelocal(<stdin>)'

Does not recognize the data being pushed

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Re^3: Date to Epoch
by haukex (Archbishop) on Mar 20, 2018 at 14:59 UTC
    Time::Piece does not work in core 5.10

    I'm not sure what you mean? In my installations of 5.10.0 and 5.10.1 with Time::Piece 1.12 resp. 1.15 the code I showed works fine. If you are having trouble, see How do I post a question effectively?

    I am unable to install any modules

    That's unlikely - see Yes, even you can use CPAN and local::lib.

    If all you're doing is converting a date, perhaps see date, although it can't do quite as much as the Perl modules I've named.

    $ date -d "Mar 20 2018 09:00" +"%s"
1521532800

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    Note there is a discrepancy of one hour to the output in my example above, most likely due to different time zone handling. It's always best to include time zone information with date/time strings or objects to avoid ambiguity.

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Re^3: Date to Epoch (updated)
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 20, 2018 at 14:35 UTC

    And, this solution would also require me to process the dates to numbers first

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