perl's time command

[SandraR]

I found this script that requires the end date to be formatted in perl's time. Does anyone have a way to convert normal time and date to?

There example:

$endtime = 847443600;
# Time it ends (as returned by perl's time command)

Thanks in advanced for any help.

[SeanW]

Date::Manip is very flexible in converting any text date format into the unix style seconds since epoch.

Sean

[MichaelBluejay]

use Time::Local;
($Second, $Minute, $Hour, $Day, $Month, $Year, $WeekDay, $DayOfYear, $IsDST) = localtime($endtime);