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From: darrylo@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Darryl Okahata)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: "Un-ctime" in Perl?
Message-ID: <8310019@hpnmdla.HP.COM>
Date: 31 Jan 91 04:42:56 GMT
Organization: HP Network Measurements Div, Santa Rosa, CA
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     I know that this is asking a lot, but does anyone have an
"un-ctime" in perl?  I'm looking for something that takes a date string
like "8:24 am Jan 31, 1991" (or "Wed Jan 30 20:40:34 PST 1991" -- note
the differences in syntax) and converts it into the usual number of
seconds since 0hrs UTC Jan 1, 1970.

     I know that implementations exist for C/yacc, but I'm wondering if
anyone has done it for perl.

     Thanks,

     -- Darryl Okahata
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