Dear monks,

Let's say I have a date / time parsed out in a bunch of variables: 
if( $time =~ m/^(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2})T(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})(Z?)$/ ) {
    ( $year, $month, $day, $hour, $min, $sec, $is_gmt ) = 
    ( $1,    $2,     $3,   $4,    $5,   $6,   $7      );
}

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Is there a shortcut to turn these into a value as returned by time(), i.e. number of seconds since the epoch? So that I can do numerical comparisons on the dates, and then format them back into something pretty using localtime() or the POSIX strftime function?

Thanks!

In reply to The opposite of localtime() by rvosa

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