gmdate perl

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Re: gmdate perl by Anonymous Monk on Mar 04, 2012 at 09:46 UTC
$ perldoc -f gmdate No documentation for perl function `gmdate' found [download] This means you'll have to help yourself, sorry Tutorials: How to help yourself	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: gmdate perl by akagrawal3 (Beadle) on Mar 04, 2012 at 10:05 UTC
Well I think that it sets the time to GMT.	[reply]
Re^3: gmdate perl by Anonymous Monk on Mar 04, 2012 at 10:35 UTC
Well I think that it sets the time to GMT. Lets see, searching Class::Date for "gmdate" use Class::Date qw(:errors date localdate gmdate now -DateParse -EnvC); $date = gmdate "2001-11-12 17:13"; You can create a date object by the "date", "localdate" or "gmdate" function, or by calling the Class::Date constructor. "gmdate $x" is equivalent to "date $x, $Class::Date::GMT_TIMEZONE". It could be	[reply]
Re^4: gmdate perl by akagrawal3 (Beadle) on Mar 04, 2012 at 11:36 UTC
Re^2: gmdate perl by akagrawal3 (Beadle) on Mar 04, 2012 at 09:48 UTC
I have used the following in the code. I guess this might help. `use Class::Date qw/gmdate now/;`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: gmdate perl by Anonymous Monk on Mar 04, 2012 at 09:54 UTC
Wonderful, now read all about it Class::Date	[reply]
Re^4: gmdate perl by akagrawal3 (Beadle) on Mar 04, 2012 at 10:01 UTC
Re^5: gmdate perl by Jenda (Abbot) on Mar 04, 2012 at 22:39 UTC
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Re: gmdate perl by Marshall (Canon) on Mar 04, 2012 at 10:19 UTC
First, for a situation like this, show runnable Perl code! PHP gmdate function. PHP code is not Perl code! I am unaware of a function called gmdate() within common Perl modules. ~~Update: Class::Date has this function and it appears to be just fine. Good enough.~~	[reply]
Re^2: gmdate perl by Anonymous Monk on Mar 04, 2012 at 10:28 UTC
First, for a situation like this, show runnable Perl code! FWIW, the op did, half an hour ago :D	[reply]