Date & Time

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I have probem with GetActivationTime() its returns as seconds , how can we convert Date & Time?

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GetActivationTime()
Returns the activation time of this task in seconds since the epoch
(i.e., UNIX time), or undef if the task has not been activated

run perldoc Date::Manip, then RTFM

ParseDateString
$date = ParseDateString($string);

This routine is called by ParseDate, but it may also be called
directly to save some time (a negligable amount).

NOTE: One of the most frequently asked questions that I have gotten
is how to parse seconds since the epoch. ParseDateString cannot
simply parse a number as the seconds since the epoch (it conflicts
with some ISO-8601 date formats). There are two ways to get this
information. First, you can do the following:

$secs = ... # seconds since Jan 1, 1970 00:00:00 GMT
$date = &DateCalc("Jan 1, 1970 00:00:00 GMT",$secs);

Second, you can call it directly as:

$date = &ParseDateString("epoch $secs");

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I have probem with GetActivationTime() its returns as seconds , how can we convert Date & Time?

Thanks!

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GetActivationTime()
Returns the activation time of this task in seconds since the epoch
(i.e., UNIX time), or undef if the task has not been activated

run perldoc Date::Manip, then RTFM

ParseDateString
$date = ParseDateString($string);

This routine is called by ParseDate, but it may also be called
directly to save some time (a negligable amount).

NOTE: One of the most frequently asked questions that I have gotten
is how to parse seconds since the epoch. ParseDateString cannot
simply parse a number as the seconds since the epoch (it conflicts
with some ISO-8601 date formats). There are two ways to get this
information. First, you can do the following:

$secs = ... # seconds since Jan 1, 1970 00:00:00 GMT
$date = &DateCalc("Jan 1, 1970 00:00:00 GMT",$secs);

Second, you can call it directly as:

$date = &ParseDateString("epoch $secs");

That's kind of heavy-handed - you could just use something like:

my $activated = localtime($task->GetActivationTime());

If you want something a little bit fancier - look at the perldoc for Date::Format.
I recommend limiting the use of Date::Manip to when you really need to do some serious manipulations and/or need to be able to accept all sorts of formats - like "today", "yesterday", "last monday", "21 June 2007", "June 21st 2007", etc. and being able to do calculations of date comparisons and such.