[thelist] Perl problem and question
Hassan Schroeder
hassan at webtuitive.com
Sat Aug 4 18:02:44 CDT 2001
CDitty wrote:
> I have noticed that perl is not as user friendly (function wise) as say
> PHP. I have some books that are approx 1 years old.
Hopefully, one of those is the "camel" book -- Programming Perl,
by Wall, Christiansen, & Schwartz (O'Reilly) :-)
> Anyhow, I seem to be having a problem with dates.
> My server date shows the correct date, but in perl, I am a month off. This
> is the code I am using to get the date/time.
> ($second,$minute,$hour,$month_day,$month,$year) = (localtime)[0,1,2,3,4,5];
> and it is returning 07/04/2001 17:17:6.
The integer returned as $month is an array index starting at 0, so
month 0 is January, month 11 is December.
> Also, I am doing a form submit within this script. After the form is
> submitted, the information submitted is missing.
A bit vague -- perhaps some code and/or more details ...
#
# but remember - "Perl is the duct tape of the Internet" :-)
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HTH!
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