thompson@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Brent Thompson) (09/27/90)
How can I convert date strings into seconds since 1970? localtime() converts seconds since 1970 into date strings, but I want to go the other way. Does someone already have a library to do this, e.g. a mktime.pl? Or is it best to use mktime(3)? So this brings up a second question: how to call C library functions not already perlized? 'makelib sys/time.h' didn't convince perl on my system that mktime actually exists. --- Brent