[ale] using Time::localtime in perl

[Ben Coleman]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:42:39 -0500 (EST), Jerry Z. Yu wrote:

>	localtime will return an array, unless you cast it to a string by
>'scalar' operator or implicitly uses it in a scalar environment.

Actually, he *is* using it in a scalar environement:

#	my $realaccess = localtime($access);


The trick is, he's not using the standard Perl localtime.  He's using
the Time::localtime module, which replaces the standard Perl localtime
with one that returns Time::tm objects.  David, you'd be better off
using the standard Perl localtime than using Time::localtime.

Ben
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