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From: chip@osh3.OSHA.GOV (Chip Yamasaki)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Date/Time conversion
Message-ID: <1991May07.184931.19141@osh3.OSHA.GOV>
Date: 7 May 91 18:49:31 GMT
Organization: U.S. D.O.L - Occupational Safety & Health Admin.
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I have a question on Date and Time conversions.  I am writing a Perl
script to parse the UUCP logfiles to record the information in a
database.  The logfiles contain the date and time information in a
format like:

5/6-0:09:49

I would like to be able to take this and turn it back into the Unix
clock time (seconds since . . .).  If I have to I could load these
values into a tm type structure, but I can't find a function for that
either.

Does anybody out there have a function like this in their Perl library? 
Also, are there any Perl libraries out there with other such usefull
functions?


Thanks!
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Charles "Chip" Yamasaki
chip@oshcomm.osha.gov