I was just saying the time conversion routines will take a trip through epoch time. That is true for whatever module or library that you use. These things take your text and convert it to a number and then take that number and make new text out of it!

I found this article on Tech Republic: http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6132371.html

Basically this local time to gmtime is a mess! I hear that there are some parts of US states that adjust clocks +-30 minutes, not whole hours! The Perl modules will do what the GNU modules will do and maybe even more.

If you are really interested in "getting it right", I would suggest the Perl date/time module. This thing figures out leap seconds and stuff like that.

for conversion like from PDT to PSDT, etc, Perl is great at that!

In reply to Re^3: RFC 822 date manipulation without DateTime module? by Marshall
in thread RFC 822 date manipulation without DateTime module? by GhodMode

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