Hi, I'm looking at times with a view toward comparing them with a start time, then doing something.

The easiest way would seem to be using the base time (no formatting). There is a lot of difference between these and I wonder which is the best one to use.

Starting date = 33481731610842121
GMTime = 0001070400
LocalTime = 16541731610842121

My code is this
Code:

print "Starting date = 33481731610842121<br>\n"; print "GMTime = \n"; print localtime($time); print "<br>\n"; print "LocalTime = \n"; print localtime(time);

When I refresh, the Local changes, but the GMT does not. Does that mean the GMT is set to the day (disregarding hours minutes and seconds)?

Cheers - Ted


Either I'm confused or you are. You are not calling gmtime anywhere in the code you posted and $time has never been defined. Is this what you meant to do?

print "Starting date = 33481731610842121<br>\n";
print "GMTime = \n";
print gmtime(time);
print "<br>\n";
print "LocalTime = \n";
print localtime(time);

gmtime does return a shorter string than localtime, at least on my computer it does. I don't know why that is. But they both return a 9 element array when called in list context and the same format when called in scalar context.

print "Starting date = 33481731610842121<br>\n";
print "GMTime = \n";
print scalar gmtime(time);
print "<br>\n";
print "LocalTime = \n";
print scalar localtime(time);



Little demo ...

This code:

Code:

@now = gmtime(); $now = gmtime(); print ("gmtime\n@now\n",@now,"\n","$now\n"); @now = localtime(); $now = gmtime(); print ("\nlocattime\n@now\n",@now,"\n","$now\n");

returns

Code:

earth-wind-and-fire:~/aug08 grahamellis$ perl times gmtime 34 2 18 1 7 108 5 213 0 342181710852130 Fri Aug  1 18:02:34 2008 locattime 34 2 19 1 7 108 5 213 1 342191710852131 Fri Aug  1 18:02:34 2008 earth-wind-and-fire:~/aug08 grahamellis$

It looks very odd as a single number all together which can be a bit confusing; elements are really:
second
minute
hour
day
month (0 to 11)
year (from 1900)
day of week
day of year
daylight saving correction


Which to use?   It depends on the context of your server / computer. If you want it to report back in GMT, then use that ... if it's for a UK only applicatin, then use localtime.


Hi guys, had major connection problems and it just got sorted (hopefully) by Virgin.

You're right Kevin gmtime was missed out - me figuring out stuff, as I've never used this method before.

Thanks Graham, I can see what stuff does.

There is another one I found that's just "time"and it gives a shorter result. I think that using localtime would be best. Everything is in seconds (I think), and so differences would have to done on that basis. What I'm playing about with is a fake cron thing to activate scripts. Based on a preset date (I'll try to figure out a midnight one). So that oughta tax my brain for a bit (I'm lousy at math)

Thanks - Ted

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