Some useful functions that I've made to deal with timestamps
sub TimeFormatHash{ ($pattern, %hash) = @_;
$output = $pattern;
$output =~ s|(\w+)|$hash{$1}|gs;
return $output;
}
sub TimeHash{ (@timevar) = @_;
my %TIME;
($TIME{sec}, $TIME{min}, $TIME{hour}, $TIME{day},
$TIME{month}, $TIME{year}, $TIME{wday}, $TIME{yday}, $TIME{isdst} ) = @timevar; $TIME{year}=1900 + $TIME{year}; #Allows full date, Y2K
$TIME{month} ++; #Month starts at 0, so +1 for calendar month
$TIME{wday} ++; #Weekday starts at 0, so +1 for calendar weekday (1=Sunday)
if ($TIME{month} < 10)
{$TIME{month} = "0" . $TIME{month}; }#append 0 to start of month
if ($TIME{day} < 10)
{$TIME{day} = "0" . $TIME{day}; } #append 0 to start of day
return %TIME;
}
You can use then like:
my %now = TimeHash(gmtime() );
my $this_date = TimeFormatHash("year/month/day", %now );

In reply to Re: MySQL timestamp by darkphorm
in thread [untitled node, ID 159708] by Samn

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