Hi Monks-

I'm parsing a logfile that gives me Timezone, Month, Day, Year, and the number of milliseconds since midnight. I would like to create a timestamp string down to the milliseconds of the form:

mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss.xxx

I fancy using DateTime to help me out with this, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to generate and provide the fraction of a second to it. I am forced to use perl5.8 - any help is very much appreciated!

Thanks

-Craig

Here is my current code that does not handle fractions of a second: 

use strict;
use warnings;

# Get Data...
my ($tZone, $pMonth, $pDay, $pYear, $pStart) = qw(-04:00 05 30 2012 50
+460904);
print STDERR "tZone=$tZone pMonth=$pMonth pDay=$pDay pYear=$pYear pSta
+rt=$pStart\n";

use DateTime;

# Start from midnight...
my $dt = DateTime->new(year=>$pYear, month=>$pMonth, day=>$pDay, hour=
+>00, minute=>00, second=>00, time_zone=>$tZone);

# Add in milliseconds since midnight (pStart)...
$dt->add(seconds=>int($pStart/1000));

my $timestamp = $dt->strftime('%D %T.%3N');
print STDERR "timestamp=$timestamp\n";

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