Re: [MacPerl] Munging dates

[Georges Martin <georges.martin@deboeck.be>]

Date::Manip has a method &Date_SecsSince1970.

I'm using Date::Manip for about a year to process french dates, maybe I 
can help ? What kind of process do you want to do ?

Georges Martin

>I spent part of the weekend trying to identify a suitable routine to
>use under MacPerl to parse human-readable dates and turn them into
>something that Perl can process. From CPAN I found what looks like
>three candindtes:
>
>  Date::Parse from a group of routines by Graham Barr. Appears to 
>  work OK, but can only handle American style dates (1/2/1998 is 
>  2nd January rather than 1st February) which is a problem for me.
>
>  Time::ParseDate from a group of routines by Muir Sharnoff. Handles
>  UK dates, but returns seconds since 1 Jan 1970, rather than from
>  the normal Mac origin of 1 Jan 1907. I thought I could see how
>  to fix this, but the routines use integer arrithmatic and the 'fix'
>  seems to cause integer limits to be broken inside the code.
>
>  Date::Manip by Sullivan Beck. I haven't looked at this in detail, 
>  but it seems to be more complex than I need, and has the added
>  drawback of returning a text string date rather than seconds
>  since epoc.
>
>Given this state of affairs, has anyone any suggestions as to how to 
>procede or of better routines to try?
>
>Jon.

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