in reply to date conversion

The easy way would be to use a module like Date::Parse.

But if you don't have that module installed and don't want to install it, then you can split the string into its constituent parts and use timelocal (or timegm) from the standard module Time::Local.

But I'm not really sure how a date can be more or less than 14 hours. A date is just a point in time. You can't compare dates with durations.

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Re^2: date conversion
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 05, 2006 at 18:03 UTC

    He probably meant "older", not "greater". In that case, he'd compare the difference between the output of str2time or timelocal and the output of time against 14*60*60 (14 hours in seconds).

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