[TriLUG] a quickie perl question

[Lance A. Brown]

Greg Brown said the following on 5/16/2008 6:45 PM:
> But how can I convert this past date:
> 
> Sun May 11 18:02:35 2008
> 
> .... back to epoch?  I want to subtract the past epoch date from the current
> to find out how many days have passed.  This should be simple (and I'm sure
> it is) but this rusty part of the brain refuses to work and I'm not finding
> what I'm needing from Google.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Date::Calc and Date::Manip can both do this.

--[Lance]

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