The normal Perl functions cannot handle this year of 2106 because:

On perl versions older than 5.12.0, the range of dates that can be actually be handled depends on the size of time_t (usually a signed 32 bit integer) on the given platform. Currently, this is 32 bits for most systems, yielding an approximate range from Dec 1901 to Jan 2038. This integer is the number of seconds from the "epoch" or arbitrary start time/date (plus or minus).

There are a number of modules on CPAN that can handle dates greater or less than the normal Unix epoch. These are good for internal program calculations.
You might find: UNIX Time interesting.

Since the "epoch" date is arbitrary, I would not use this integer for date/time interchange between systems and I would not assume that the other system uses 64 bits vs 32 bits.

In reply to Re: Date to epoch by Marshall
in thread Date to epoch by akagrawal3

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