I have the following problem, and I've put *a little* thought and search into the solution but nothing is smacking me in the face just yet:

I maintain an automated test tool that validates a web app sitting on a MSSQL db. We have added a set of 'audit' tables to our MSSQL database, and these tables all have 'DateTime' columns, which give dates in the format:

2010-07-23 19:44:43.523

I need to compare that date with Perl's localtime(time) value, and decide if this stamp is within ~1 minute of the value stored in the database.

FYI: on my system (windows7), localtime(time) returns the following format: 

perl -e "print localtime(time).$/"
Fri Jul 23 14:57:39 2010

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-TJ

In reply to Comparing timestamps that are in 2 different but defined styles by technojosh

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