Converting the date/time field in apache logs

...into Unix format

[sugarkane]

Anyone know of an easy way to convert the date field of an apache log entry into the Unix seconds format (using Perl)?

I think I could probably knock something up using regular expressions etc, but I'm sure I've seen a ready-rolled module out there somewhere...

Any ideas?

[theperlyking]

Have a look at

[theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca...]

[sugarkane]

Thanks tpk, that looks like it's halfway to what I want.

However, I'm being really lazy about this ;) I'm sure I've seen some module somewhere that will take a date in the format [01/Apr/2001:15:50:15 +0000] and spit out the time in seconds... has anyone else come across this or am I imagining things again?

[sugarkane]

Okay, I've found it :)

Date::Parse [engelschall.com] is exactly what I needed...

Does anyone know of any good sites that list available Perl modules in a slightly more descriptive way than CPAN? It's often hard to know where to start looking there...