perl-date conversion strftime issue....

motlnt

Hi all,
I am trying to resolve an issue in previously written code.
The issue is no matter what is passed in the 'Date' field during the workflow the following code in the IPL interprets it as 12/31/1969 only.
for e.g if date is passed as 2007-12-14,

use POSIX qw(locale_h strftime);

print POSIX::strftime('%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S',localtime(2007-12-24));

output:
12/31/1969

basically the output intended is like this:
12/24/07.

I read in some previous post that this might be because of the way Unix interprets the dates and strftime function parses it.

is there any other alternative to using strftime()?

thx in advance..
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Interwoven certified consultant
TS 6.7.1 on RedHat Linux

moonkhanna

Hi all, I am trying to resolve an issue in previously written code. The issue is no matter what is passed in the 'Date' field during the workflow the following code in the IPL interprets it as 12/31/1969 only. for e.g if date is passed as 2007-12-14, use POSIX qw(locale_h strftime); print POSIX::strftime('%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S',localtime(2007-12-24)); output: 12/31/1969 basically the output intended is like this: 12/24/07. I read in some previous post that this might be because of the way Unix interprets the dates and strftime function parses it. is there any other alternative to using strftime()? thx in advance.. ============================== Interwoven certified consultant TS 6.7.1 on RedHat Linux

If your intention is to change the format, use regex to do the same. Highly simple and robust solution to your scenario