Timestamps

Ronnie has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: Timestamps by amw1 (Friar) on Jun 23, 2004 at 15:35 UTC
You can get the current time with the time() function. YOu can generate a specific time value with Time::Local `use Time::Local; $now = time(); $specific_time = timelocal($seconds, $minutes, $hour, $month_day, $mon +th, $year);` [download] $now and $specific_time are both represented as seconds since midnight jan 1, 1970. use localtime() to extract the seoncs, minues, hours etc from this.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Timestamps by Anonymous Monk on Jun 24, 2004 at 10:03 UTC
Thanks that did the trick! You have to enjoy Perl's consistency. Localtime to extract timestamp details and to reverse the process you reverse the verb name! Cheers, Ronnie	[reply]
Re: Timestamps by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Jun 23, 2004 at 15:34 UTC
Ronnie, perldoc Time::Local should give you what you are looking for - it is btw, only one of many ways to do it. Cheers - L~R	[reply]
Re: Timestamps by Happy-the-monk (Canon) on Jun 23, 2004 at 15:36 UTC
how to generate a timestamp? Just have a look at this node and at `perldoc -f localtime` and all that's left to do is to find the documentation that tells you how your timestamps are supposed to look like. Cheers, Sören	[reply]
Re: Timestamps by davido (Cardinal) on Jun 23, 2004 at 15:39 UTC
How much resolution do you need? If "to the second" accuracy is sufficient, what's wrong with using localtime in scalar context? If you need better resolution than one second, you can use Time::HiRes's Time::HiRes::time() function, which returns floating-point seconds since epoc. Dave	[reply]
Re: Timestamps by Grygonos (Chaplain) on Jun 23, 2004 at 16:41 UTC
An example of a timestamping method I use `my @time = (localtime)[1..5]; my $filename = ($time[4]+1900)."-" .($time[3]+1)."-".$time[2]."_" .$time[1]."-".$time[0];` [download] Grygonos	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Timestamps by hsinclai (Deacon) on Jun 23, 2004 at 15:46 UTC
There are a couple timestring formatting examples on my pad .. hsinclai	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Timestamps by wufnik (Friar) on Jun 23, 2004 at 22:07 UTC
simple code for a YYYYMMDDHHMMSS time stamp follows... `use Time::localtime; my $tm = localtime; my $timestamp = sprintf("%04d%02d%02d%02d%02d%02d", $tm->year+1900, ($tm->mon)+1, $tm->mday, $tm->hour, $tm->min, $tm->sec);` [download] note irritating little additions to deal with year/month. all the best, ...wufnik -- in the world of the mules there are no rules --	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Timestamps by Agyeya (Hermit) on Jul 06, 2004 at 17:11 UTC
Hi! I hope this pertains to your porblem. Incase you want the timestamp in an MySql table, then you can set the field data type as timestamp. So whenever you insert a record into this table, the time stamp will be automatically generated. I hope this helps.	[reply]