Re: Time::Piece epoch parsing

in reply to Time::Piece epoch parsing

~~My man pages say that %e is the same as %d, i.e., the day of the month.~~(Update: I need glasses...OP is %s not %e) That said, you don't have to 'parse' an epoch, you just pass it to new():

use strict;
use warnings;
use Time::Piece;

my $e = time();
my $t = Time::Piece->new($e);
print Time::Piece->VERSION, "\n";

print "Input $e\n";
print "Output ".$t->epoch(), "\n";
print $t, "\n";
print $t->strftime, "\n";
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Re^2: Time::Piece epoch parsing by vsespb (Chaplain) on Jul 03, 2016 at 23:47 UTC
I am not looking for way to parse epoch, I am investigating why strptime with %s works wrong.	[reply]
Re^3: Time::Piece epoch parsing by runrig (Abbot) on Jul 15, 2016 at 16:10 UTC
I am not looking for way to parse epoch, I am investigating why strptime with %s works wrong. Um, strptime is a function that (I think) is short for string-parse-time, and %s is the field descriptor for epoch, so I think you are trying to parse an epoch, whether you realize it or not.	[reply]
Re^4: Time::Piece epoch parsing (semantics) by Anonymous Monk on Jul 15, 2016 at 18:38 UTC
There's a small but important distinction, though. He is not trying to parse, he is parsing^[*]. Elsewhere, the problem lies.	[reply]
Re^4: Time::Piece epoch parsing by vsespb (Chaplain) on Aug 10, 2016 at 00:15 UTC
No, I actually have a function which accepts strptime-like-format and data to parse and parses it. So I need strptime functionality and other ways to parse epoch are useless to me.	[reply]
Re^3: Time::Piece epoch parsing by Anonymous Monk on Aug 10, 2016 at 00:19 UTC
I am not looking for way to parse epoch, I am investigating why strptime with %s works wrong. Look at the source, IIRC its a call to the underling C Runtimes strptime function, they're not all the same	[reply]
Re^4: Time::Piece epoch parsing by Anonymous Monk on Aug 10, 2016 at 01:28 UTC
*it's. Also, sentences end with a dot. Time::Piece includes its own version of `strptime()`; there is no call to libc function. This embedded C function returns a `got_GMT` value which, however, is simply discarded. A value of 0 is always returned to perl side, corresponding with the `islocal` flag. One end of the module does not know or care what the other end is doing....	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Time::Piece epoch parsing by vsespb (Chaplain) on Aug 10, 2016 at 12:33 UTC

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