Re: Re: [MacPerl] Posix function question

[Awrobinson@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/24/98 1:26:24 PM, pudge@pobox.com wrote:

>At 00.48 -0400 1998.07.24, Awrobinson@aol.com wrote:
>>One of the examples in Lincoln Stein's book "Official Guide to Programming
>>With CGI.pm" uses the Posix strftime() function. It didn't work with
MacPerl.
>>I got what I expected with the date formats, but not the time formats. '%r'
is
>>supposed to give the time in 12 hour format, but all it printed was "r".
>
>So you mean it does not work as expected, or maybe even does not work
>properly.  But surely POSIX::strftime() works.

In the words of that great philosopher, Ed McMahon, "You are correct, sir!" It
returned the date portion of the current time, but not the time portion. 

>>Likewise for '%Y' for 24 hour time.
>
>%Y is the 4-digit year, not a time.  It works as expected for me.

My bad. I meant '%T'. '%Y' did indeed work. '%T' did not.

>>Can anyone tell me what the formats are for the MacPerl version of
strftime()
>>or point me to the equivalent of my "system's manpage"?
>
>Well, Date::Format also has strftime, and time2str (which uses time()
>instead of an array).  I have heard less than glowing things about it, but
>it has worked in my experience, and %r works as expected.
>
>However, it seems the POSIX::strftime() misbehavior with %r is a bug.

I was assuming it was my ignorance. I'll try the Date::Format version. 

Thanks!

Andrew Robinson

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