Hi northwestdev,

Use Time::Local for the function timelocal, which is the inverse of the builtin localtime.

For example: 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Time::Local;

my $date  = "06/06/2009";

my ($m,$d,$y) = $date =~ m|(\d+)/(\d+)/(\d+)|;
my $timet = timelocal(0, 0, 0, $d, $m-1, $y);
print "Date '$date' => $timet\n"

# Updated -- check the reverse
my $ltime = localtime($timet);
print "$timet => $ltime\n";

# Results:
#   Date '06/06/2009' => 1244260800
#   1244260800 => Sat Jun  6 00:00:00 2009

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Note that the first three arguments to timelocal above represent (respectively) the number of seconds, minutes, and hours; in your case they can be zero, as you're only interested in a one-day granularity.

Update:  As Corion reminds me, the month passed to timelocal needs to be zero-based, not one-based the way humans represent dates.  Changing "$m" to "$m-1" in my code fixed this (thanks, Corion!).

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In reply to Re: String (date) to time (integer) by liverpole
in thread String (date) to time (integer) by northwestdev

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