Hello Matt,

Tuesday July 07 2015, Matt Bedynek wrote to Michael Dukelsky:

 MD>> Google does not find fts_date at perl.org. That means it was
 MD>> deprecated before Perl 5.004, that is before 1997.

 MB> I believe it is a function with hpt that was deprecated.  From the
 MB> example filter.pl:

 MB> # fts2date(fts1)
 MB> # converts date in fts-1 format string to unixtime

Now I understand.

 MB> fts2date does not exist but fts_date does

Really? Please tell me the filename and line number. In the sources I have
I cannot find such a function.

 MB> and works

Hm-m.

 MB> but you receive a
 MB> log message indicating to use the "numeric" which I am
not sure what
 MB> that means.  I might try looking through the source code to see if
 MB> there is another way to call it.

What do you want? If you want just unixtime in a perl hook, you may use
time(). If you want to convert the time read from a message to unixtime,
you may use mktime from the POSIX module (perldoc POSIX).

Michael

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