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in thread TIMTOWTDI Challenge: Create a filename

Won't that be over 300 years from now? If that's really a problem, just add sprintf '%17.6f' or whatever to the mix.

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Re^5: TIMTOWTDI Challenge: Create a filename
by ysth (Canon) on Jan 11, 2009 at 23:27 UTC
    No, it was a few years ago, using the unix epoch. 
    $ perl -wle'print ~~gmtime 1e9'
Sun Sep  9 01:46:40 2001

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      I figured you meant the switch to 11 digits because time's not about to start running backwards.

      The sprintf solution can be used if the problem is changed to something that needs to handle past dates.

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