[MacPerl] MacPerl5 and libwww-perl-5b7

[bcox@gmu.edu (Brad Cox)]

According to http://perl.com/perl/wwwman/libwww/lib/HTTP/Date.html

>SYNOPSIS
>
> use HTTP::Date;
>
> $stringGMT = time2str(time);   # Format as GMT ascii time
> $time = str2time($stringGMT);  # convert ascii date to machine time

So I tried:

use HTTP::Date;
$time = time;
my $stringGMT = time2str($time);
$nutime = str2time($stringGMT) || die "failed on $stringGMT\n";
print "$stringGMT $time/$nutime\n";

and got...

# failed on Wed, 13 Mar 1996 01:24:54 GMT

This is with MacPerl507rlm and libwww-perl-5b7, both right out of the box.

I probably didn't install libwww correctly....

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

is a stone bitch to do on a mac ;-)

Is the problem that I should be digging around for a libwww for MacPerl5???

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