I have some dates in the format scalar localtime() which I want to convert to create a timestamp.

I thought this would be quite simple, as the scalar localtime() is automatic and so, I thought, would be the re-conversion. However much reading left me with the impression that I had to do a little more work to make this conversion.

I came up with the following script: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use strict;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser warningsToBrowser);
use CGI ':standard';
use Time::Local;

my  $input = param('date');

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
my $ILLEGAL_CHARS = qr/[^\w:]/;

if ($input =~ /$ILLEGAL_CHARS/;) {
    print "You do not have the right to enter that information";
}    

my @date = split (/ /, $input);
my ($day,$mon,$mday,$hms,$year) = @date;
my @date1 = split (/:/, $hms);
my ($hour,$min,$sec) = @date1;

my %mon_writ = (     
                   Jul => '6',
                 Aug => '7',
                Sept => '8',
                  Oct => '9',
                   );

$mon = $mon_writ{key};

($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year) =~ s/^0+//;

$year = $year - 1900;

my $TIME = timegm($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year);
print $TIME;

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which appears to give me the correct results. I just thought that I'd ask the question - did I miss something, is there a one or two liner which would do this job?

If there are improvements I could make to this I'd also be grateful to know of them

In reply to scalar localtime() to timestamp by jonnyfolk

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