date conversion

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Re: date conversion by saintmike (Vicar) on Aug 27, 2005 at 16:30 UTC
`use Date::Parse; use DateTime; my $time = str2time("26/Aug/2005:01:05:43 -0400"); my $dt = DateTime->from_epoch( epoch => $time ); print $dt->ymd(''), $dt->hms(''), "Z\n";` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: date conversion by pg (Canon) on Aug 27, 2005 at 18:48 UTC
Z is actually a military time zone. I am wondering whether the time zone conversion has been handled.	[reply]
Re^3: date conversion by Thelonius (Priest) on Aug 27, 2005 at 19:16 UTC
The from_epoch method defaults to the UTC time zone, which is the same as "Z". When I just tried to install DateTime on my Windows system, there seemed to be a circular installation dependency between DateTime and DateTime::TimeZone. Just FYI. As an alternative to the second part of saintmike's solution, one could do: `use Date::Parse; use POSIX; my $time = str2time("26/Aug/2005:01:05:43 -0400"); print POSIX::strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%SZ", gmtime($time)), "\n";` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: date conversion by m2001smith (Initiate) on Aug 27, 2005 at 19:28 UTC
Re^3: date conversion by fmerges (Chaplain) on Aug 28, 2005 at 11:28 UTC
Hi, Here you can read about Date and Time Format & W3C & ISO8601. Regards, \|fire\| at irc.freenode.net	[reply]
Re^3: date conversion by jdtoronto (Prior) on Aug 28, 2005 at 05:52 UTC
'Z' is actually, in the days when such zones were in common use - GMT. It is used by the military, but it is not a military time zone. jdtoronto	[reply]