Hi,
I am trying to find difference between 2 given dates...
I have the date in the format as the "date" command output.
Lets say:
Tue Jun 14 00:15:35 PDT 2005

So i am trying to find the difference...
the easier way i found was while taking the ouput of date command take the output of
$ date +%s
1118733402

or else we can use time function also while executing the script..
So we will take the time in seconds while executing the date...
so now... for finding the difference... we will find the difference between seconds... and convert it into HH:MM:SS.

So i will subtract the seconds and pass it to localtime which give me the string in format.... lets assume difference... is always less than 24 hrs...
in that case it has to return me the correct time after 1 Jan 1970 right ....

mean to say if i pass 0 seconds to localtime it should return 1st Jan 1970 00:00:00.
But localtime is showing something else...
is that depends upon some other thing...
is that logic correct...

please answer....


localtime returns a string containing the time and date if you run it in a scalar context, and a list of the various components of the time and date if you run it in a list context.   Thus:

Code:

$now = time(); $demo = localtime($now); @demo = localtime($now); $demo2 = localtime(0); @demo2 = localtime(0); print ("$demo\n"); print ("@demo\n"); print ("$demo2\n"); print ("@demo2\n");

gives you

Tue Jun 14 09:01:51 2005
51 1 9 14 5 105 2 164 1
Thu Jan  1 01:00:00 1970
0 0 1 1 0 70 4 0 0

hi
the thing is on my linux system

here is what i have coded:

$ cat ara.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
$demo=localtime(0);
print $demo;

Here is the output:

$ perl ara.pl
Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969



Thats y i am got worried, is something wrong with my system....


I think you're 8 hours behind GMT?  West coast of the USA?

You are using the LOCALtime function to get the time on your system ... where at 4p.m. on 31st December, it's midnight here in London.

Note the gmtime function which returns information about normalised (GMT) times.

hey its working fine with gmtime...

thanks for that... i used gmtime its working fine...
rather than using localtime its giving correct results....

$ cat ara.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
$demo=localtime(0);
print $demo;
$demo1=gmtime(0);
print "\n".$demo1;

$ perl ara.pl
Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970


Thank u very much

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