on Fri, 26 Jul 2002 18:51:24 GMT, Jeff 'Japhy' Pinyan wrote:
> On Jul 26, lz said:
>
>>I use Perl gmttime() to obtain UTC Time (formerly
>>known as GMT Time) and unfortunately, value returned
>>does not match official UTC time format:
>>
>>Official UTC Time Format = YYMMDDHHMMZ
>>
>>and here is what I get from gmtime() API=
>>7321826610252060
>
> gmtime() returns a list of numbers. (See perldoc -f gmtime)
I do believe the docs on gmtime are not correct though.
The "number" above can be decomposed as follows
7 32 18 26 6 102 5 206 0
which is
July 26, 2002 at 18:32:07
(hey, that's today :-)
while perldoc -f gmtime says:
gmtime EXPR
Converts a time as returned by the time function to a 8-element
list with the time localized for the standard Greenwich time
zone. Typically used as follows:
# 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday) =
gmtime(time);
while in fact it returns a 9-element list (as localtime does), with the
last element ($isdst) being 0 (false).
my @array = gmtime();
print scalar @array; # prints 9, not 8
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felix
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