Like so: 

use Time::Local qw/timegm_nocheck/;

my $date_string = "2005301";    # The 301st day of 2005
my ($year,$julian_day) = $date_string =~ /^(\d\d\d\d)(\d\d\d)$/;
my $gmt = timegm_nocheck 0,0,0,$julian_day,0,$year;
# ...  do something with the gmt value

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Way back in the days of perl4, timelocal.pl (from whence Time::Local is derived) did no validation of the numbers since it is a straight numeric calculation that does not depend on how many days there are in a given month or how many hours in a day, etc. timegm_nocheck and timelocal_nocheck implement the modern-day equivalents of this idea.

But, you'd know this if you'd read the documentation

duff

In reply to Re^3: Convert dates with Time::Local by duff
in thread Convert dates with Time::Local by jeanluca

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