Stupid Time issues

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Re: Stupid Time issues by Nkuvu (Priest) on Jul 19, 2005 at 23:51 UTC
Three hours five minutes (03::05 as per your note there) and 7/19/05. Shazam! Glad we could help. ~~Cereally~~ Seriously, the minutes: `my $minutes = 185; my $hours = $minutes / 60; $minutes = $minutes % 60; printf "Minutes: %02d:%02d\n", $hours, $minutes;` [download] For the date you may want a regex or POSIX::strftime or maybe just fields from localtime. Where is the datetime coming from?	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Stupid Time issues by gube (Parson) on Jul 20, 2005 at 00:41 UTC
Hi, Please go through the Date::Calc. This type date and time problem can be easily solved.	[reply]
Re: Stupid Time issues by Codon (Friar) on Jul 20, 2005 at 00:00 UTC
Very powerful, potentially overkill (depending on needs): Date::Manip. Ivan Heffner Sr. Software Engineer, DAS Lead WhitePages.com, Inc.	[reply]
Re: Stupid Time issues by garrison (Scribe) on Jul 20, 2005 at 00:44 UTC
A more literal interpretation: `my $dateonly = ( split(' ', '7/19/2005 4:50:44PM') )[0]; print "$dateonly\n";` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Stupid Time issues by ChrisR (Hermit) on Jul 20, 2005 at 02:18 UTC
TMTOWTDI: `($date) = "7/19/2005 4:50:44PM" =~ /(\d+\/\d+\/\d+)/;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Stupid Time issues by szabgab (Priest) on Jul 20, 2005 at 09:40 UTC
There is a large set of PHP functions implemented in Perl modules (see PHP) which might help in understanding how to move various pieces of PHP code to Perl.	[reply]
Re: Stupid Time issues by trammell (Priest) on Jul 20, 2005 at 15:26 UTC
Perhaps Date::Parse would work. From the command line: `% perl -MDate::Parse -le 'print scalar localtime(str2time("7/19/2005 4 +:50:44PM"))' Tue Jul 19 16:50:44 2005` [download]	[reply] [d/l]