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From: thompson@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Brent Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: library time functions
Message-ID: <5984@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM>
Date: 26 Sep 90 18:32:33 GMT
Reply-To: thompson@hplabs.hpl.hp.com (Brent Thompson)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA
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How can I convert date strings into seconds since 1970?  localtime()
converts seconds since 1970 into date strings, but I want to go the
other way.  Does someone already have a library to do this, e.g. a
mktime.pl?  Or is it best to use mktime(3)?

So this brings up a second question:  how to call C library functions
not already perlized?  'makelib sys/time.h' didn't convince perl on my
system that mktime actually exists.
 ---   Brent