Date::Parse::Modern - Provide string to unixtime conversions
Date::Parse::Modern provides a single function strtotime() which takes a
datetime string and returns an integer unixtime. Care was given to support
modern datetime strings that one would commonly find in log files or on the
internet.
use Date::Parse::Modern;Date::Parse::Modern exports the strtotime() function automatically.
my $unixtime = strtotime('1979-02-24'); # 288691200Simply feed strtotime() a string with some type of date or time in it,
and it will return an integer unixtime. If the string is unparseable, or a
weird error occurs, it will return undef.
All the "magic" in strtotime() is done using regular expressions that look
for common datetime formats. Common formats like YYYY-MM-DD and HH:II:SS
are easily detected and converted to the appropriate formats. This allows the
date or time to be found anywhere in the string, in (almost) any order. If you
limit your string to only the date/time portion the parsing will be much
quicker. Shorter input equals faster parsing.
Note: Strings without a year are assumed to be in the current year.
Example: May 15th, 10:15am
Note: Strings with only a date are assumed to occur at midnight.
Example: 2023-01-15
Note: Strings with only time are assumed to be the current day.
Example: 10:15am
Note: In strings with numeric and textual time zone offsets, the numeric
is used. Example: 14 Nov 1994 11:34:32 -0500 (EST)
Note: If a string contains neither a textual nor numeric timezone, the local
timezone is assumed. Example: 11/23/2025 08:00 PM
Note: In all cases, the day of the week is ignored in the input string.
Example: Mon Mar 25 2024
Everyone has their favorite date/time format, and we'd like to support as many as possible. We have tried to support as much of ISO 8601 as possible, but we cannot support everything. Every new format we support runs the risk of slowing down things for existing formats. You can submit a feature request on Github for new formats but we may reject them if adding support would slow down others.
Please submit bugs and feature requests on Github:
https://github.com/scottchiefbaker/perl-Date-Parse-Modern
Scott Baker - https://www.perturb.org/
