comparing time

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How can I take a date from a DCR and change it to milliseconds, like the way perl uses the time function.

So, in a dcr, authors enter modules of content with active date ranges (I can capture anything, right now month, day, year). Then, I want to check if the current date in between the active dates. So rather than compare months, days and years, I would like to just compare the current time in milliseconds to the date range in the dcr in milliseconds. I can get the current time no problem,

$time = time;

but how do I convert

May 12 2003 to milliseconds?

Is there a different approach?

Thanks
Matt

Matthew Petitjean
BOC Group
Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA

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Migrateduser

Will this work for you?

$time = timelocal($sec,$min,$hours,$mday,$mon,$year);
$time = timegm($sec,$min,$hours,$mday,$mon,$year);

DESCRIPTION
These routines are the inverse of built-in perl fuctions localtime() and gmtime(). They accept a date as a six-element array, and return the corresponding time(2) value in seconds since the Epoch (Midnight, January 1, 1970). This value can be positive or negative.

More details here and an example at:
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6.1/lib/Time/Local.html

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MattP

It is exactly what I am looking for. I can't get it to work for some reason. Here is what I am trying in my TPL...
I get templte cannot be generated. If I comment out the calctime, it works fine.

<iw_perl>
<![CDATA[

$calctime = timelocal(0,0,0,0,0,0);
$time = time;
iwpt_output("$time");
iwpt_output("$calctime");

]]>
</iw_perl>

Thanks in advance.

Matt

Matthew Petitjean
BOC Group
Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA

Migrateduser

Well, if you try to convert May 12, 3003 I think it will work fine.

$calctime = timelocal(0,0,0,0,0,0); is not working because it says $mday is not withing range (1..31)

Thanks

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MattP

ok, got it. Thanks.

$day = 13;
$month = 4;
$year = 3;
$calctime = timelocal 0,0,0,$day,$month,$year;
$time = time;
iwpt_output("$time");
iwpt_output("$calctime");

]]>
</iw_perl>

now I can start to build my comparisons. Thanks for your help.

Matt

Matthew Petitjean
BOC Group
Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA

Adam Stoller

If you want to compare dates / time - you might want to look at Date::Manip - it's got a lot of very nice functions for doing things like this (and a whole lot more)

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(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

MattP

wow, your not kidding. Thanks!

Matt

Matthew Petitjean
BOC Group
Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA