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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting perl DBI inserting date\time Post 302349797 by durden_tyler on Tuesday 1st of September 2009 09:36:15 PM
Old 09-01-2009
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Originally Posted by hcclnoodles
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ive used now() before with PHP, maybe DBI in perl doesnt support it
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That's a false statement. Perl DBI supports every single *valid* MySQL statement, if you are connected via the mysql driver.
If you can run the insert statement from the mysql client, you can very well execute it via Perl DBI.
Quote:
I did it this way in the end (in case its useful to others)


Code:
my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst)=localtime(time);
my $datetime = printf "%4d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d\n",$year+1900,$mon+1,$mday,$hour,$min,$sec;
print $datetime;

This does the job but adds clutter as well, to your Perl program. More importantly, this picks up the client's local time. So if your MySQL server is in a different timezone, and if you want to add the server's time, then this will work but incorrectly.

tyler_durden
 

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posix::strptime

POSIX::strptime(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				      POSIX::strptime(3pm)

NAME

       POSIX::strptime - Perl extension to the POSIX date parsing strptime(3) function

SYNOPSIS

	($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday) = POSIX::strptime("string", "Format");

DESCRIPTION

       Perl interface to strptime(3)

FUNCTIONS

       strptime
	    ($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday) = POSIX::strptime(string, format);

	   The result for any value not extracted is not defined. Some platforms may reliably return "undef", but this is dependent on the
	   strptime(3) function in the underlying C library.

	   For example, only the following fields may be relied upon:

	    my ($min, $hour) = ( POSIX::strptime( "01:23", '%H:%M' ) )[1,2];

	    my ($mday, $mon, $year) = ( POSIX::strptime( "2010/07/16", '%Y/%m/%d' ) )[3,4,5];

	   Furthermore, not all platforms will set the $wday and $yday elements. If these values are required, use "mktime" and "gmtime":

	    use POSIX qw( mktime );
	    use POSIX::strptime qw( strptime );

	    my ($mday, $mon, $year) = ( POSIX::strptime( "2010/07/16", '%Y/%m/%d' ) )[3,4,5];
	    my $wday = ( gmtime mktime 0, 0, 0, $mday, $mon, $year )[6];

SEE ALSO

       strptime(3)

AUTHOR

       Philippe M. Chiasson <gozer@cpan.org> Kim Scheibel <kim@scheibel.co.uk>

REPOSITORY

       http://svn.ectoplasm.org/projects/perl/POSIX-strptime/trunk/

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2005 by Philippe M. Chiasson <gozer@cpan.org>.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

       See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

perl v5.14.2							    2010-07-16						      POSIX::strptime(3pm)

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