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

[Gerd Kortemeyer]

And even that scheme, which had suddenly popped up, was not consistently
implemented everywhere, see bug #839 (you were cc'd).

Guy Albertelli II wrote:

> 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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