sybperl-l Archive

From: "Arne Claassen" <arne at mp3 dot com>
Subject: Re: Date formats and Sybase
Date: Jul 10 2001 5:04AM

> You can even
> play around with things to extract an "epoch" based time
> (i.e. something like a what time() returns) and pass that to
> localtime/strftime/etc.

Do you mean there is a way for Sybase to return an epoch based time, or to
use perl to parse the string and then use timelocal to get epoch time. The
former would be great since epoch time is what we want to get things into
most of the time.

thanks,

arne