time returns the number of seconds since some arbitrary "epoch" time. For most operating systems, that time is 00:00 Jan 1st 1970 (GMT). As someone else pointed pointed out, that number just passed 1E9.
To convert from a given date to an epoch number use the timelocal function from the (standard) Time::Local module. To convert from an epoch number to a human readable format use the localtime function. You can control the format of this date easier using the POSIX::strftime function.
If you have an epoch date and you want to add or substract a certain period, then you simple convert to the appropriate number of seconds. e.g. to add two weeks to an epoch number, use code like:
$epoch += 2 * 7 * 86_400; # 86,400 seconds in a day
And finally, people have been plugging modules like Date::Manip, Date::Format and Date::Calc. In my opinion, these have all recently been obsoleted by the release of Matt Sergeant's very wonderful Time::Piece module.
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In reply to Re: time & localtime() function Q?
by davorg
in thread time & localtime() function Q?
by Gerryjun
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