A quick question:

I pull time and date from a file, and separate day, month, year, hour, minute and second, then feed the variables into localtime.pl that comes with Perl. However, one of the variables keeps producing an error, even with chop and chomp used on that variable:

my $log_time = timelocal($sec,$min,$hhour,$day,$month,$year);

I'm pretty sure it's not timelocal itself, since feeding it straight numbers works fine, translating into seconds.

I thought Perl automatically selected file types, but it looks to me like it's seeing $day as a string, even though it's a number, like 15.

A web search didn't turn up anything relevant. Any ideas?

Title edit by tye

In reply to Error from timelocal by mkent

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