Hi L-R, I get the following message when I run your code:

Perl_programs/2005_perl_programs> perl LR_date_time_convert.pl
Global symbol "$st" requires explicit package name at LR_date_time_convert.pl line 22.
Execution of LR_date_time_convert.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
## OPEN input file for reading open (IN, "1998_wind_date_time.txt") or die "Couldn't open 1998_wind_d +ate_time.txt "; ## OPEN input file for reading open (OUT, ">1998_wind_formatted_data2.out") or die "Couldn't open 199 +8_wind_formatted_data2.out"; #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Time::Local; use POSIX 'strftime'; my $str = '19980730010031'; my $epoch = get_epoch( $str ); print strftime("%m/%d/%Y", localtime($epoch)); sub get_epoch { my $str = shift; my ($yr, $mon, $day, $hr, $min, $sec) = unpack('A4A2A2A2A2A2', $st +r); $mon--; return timelocal($sec, $min, $hr, $day, $mon, $yr); }

In reply to Re^2: changing a string to a useable date time by cpiety
in thread changing a string to a useable date time by cpiety

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