[LON-CAPA-dev] retrofix of unbackwards what?

[Guy Albertelli II]

Hi Soctt,

> The description of this subroutine is not clear.
> I am guessing that this all has to do with handling
> daylight savings time as well as different time zones
> (since previous versions of searchcat.pl assumed
>  EDT or some common time zone for all machines).
> 
> Is this interpretation correct?

Nope.

What happended was we expect sconds since the epoch in metadata files

What was being inserted was 10-03-02 10:12:13 (for example)


This converts that latter to the former.

> 
> sub unsqltime {
>     my $timestamp=shift;
>     if ($timestamp=~/^(\d+)\-(\d+)\-(\d+)\s+(\d+)\:(\d+)\:(\d+)$/) {
>        $timestamp=&maketime(
> 	   'year'=>$1,'month'=>$2,'day'=>$3,
>            'hours'=>$4,'minutes'=>$5,'seconds'=>$6);
>     }
>     return $timestamp;
> }
> 
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