Actually not exactly:

use strict;
use Time::Local;

for my $date ("06/06/2009",'01/30/09') {
    my ($m,$d,$y) = $date =~ m|(\d+)/(\d+)/(\d+)|;
    my $timet = timelocal(0, 0, 0, $d, $m, $y);
    print "Date '$date' => $timet\n";
    print "localtime($timet): ", scalar localtime $timet, "\n";
}
__END__
Date '06/06/2009' => 1246831200
localtime(1246831200): Mon Jul  6 00:00:00 2009
Day '30' out of range 1..28 at .pl line 6

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As the Time::Local documentation says:

The value for the day of the month is the actual day (ie 1..31), while the month is the number of months since January (0..11).

So you need to pass in $m-1 to adjust for that.

In reply to Re^2: String (date) to time (integer) by Corion
in thread String (date) to time (integer) by northwestdev

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