Converting from "time" into a nice string?

ultranerds has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,

This should be a piece of cake for you guys, but I can't for the life of me work out how to do it :(

I have strings like:

1226667500
1226667512
1226667877
1226667880
1226667918
1226667936

(these examples are all from today, just taken a minute or 2 appart).
What I need to do, is convert them to something like:
14/11/2008 13:17:43

..can anyone suggest the best approach for this? I've had a look at Time::Local and Time::Epoch, but they don't seem to do what I need :(

TIA for any suggestions!

Andy

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Re: Converting from "time" into a nice string? by Anonymous Monk on Nov 14, 2008 at 13:22 UTC
print scalar localtime($time)	[reply]
Re^2: Converting from "time" into a nice string? by ultranerds (Hermit) on Nov 14, 2008 at 13:26 UTC
Wow, that was painless - thanks :)	[reply]
Re: Converting from "time" into a nice string? by ccn (Vicar) on Nov 14, 2008 at 13:24 UTC
perldoc -f time perldoc -f localtime	[reply]
Re: Converting from "time" into a nice string? by gwadej (Chaplain) on Nov 14, 2008 at 13:25 UTC
Check out `strftime` in the POSIX module. Allows you to format (more or less) how you want. G. Wade	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Converting from "time" into a nice string? by ultranerds (Hermit) on Nov 14, 2008 at 13:36 UTC
Thanks. Another quick question if I may :) The current server is setup as PST. ultranerds@east ~ $ date Fri Nov 14 05:33:17 PST 2008 How would I go about increasing (and decreasing, depending on the timezone I wish to show the date stamp in), the output from PST, to say GMT , or another timezone. I guess its something like: hours difference from GMT * 60 * 60 +(or -) the timestamp would that be about right? TIA! Andy	[reply]
Re^3: Converting from "time" into a nice string? by Fletch (Bishop) on Nov 14, 2008 at 13:48 UTC
Presuming your libc plays along, in theory you can diddle `$ENV{TZ}` and get the right representation from the same time_t value. Otherwise you're going to want to look into DateTime and let it and DateTime::TimeZone convert things around for you. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Converting from "time" into a nice string? by ultranerds (Hermit) on Nov 14, 2008 at 13:56 UTC
Re^5: Converting from "time" into a nice string? by converter (Priest) on Nov 14, 2008 at 14:26 UTC
Re^5: Converting from "time" into a nice string? by Fletch (Bishop) on Nov 14, 2008 at 14:11 UTC
Re^5: Converting from "time" into a nice string? by JavaFan (Canon) on Nov 14, 2008 at 14:21 UTC
Re: Converting from "time" into a nice string? by dHarry (Abbot) on Nov 14, 2008 at 13:33 UTC
`use strict; use warnings; my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(1 +226667500); printf("%02d/%02d/%04d %02d:%02d:%02d\n", $mday, $mon+1, $year+1900,$hour, $min, $sec);` [download] Outputs `14/11/2008 13:58:20`	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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