in reply to Converting date and time into seconds

I would recommend the CPAN module... ah, well. Anyways, have a look at DateTime.

If you are too exhausted to follow the advice of the previous post and do it yourself - click on the link below.

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--shmem 

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");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

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