7 @EXPORT = qw(timegm timelocal);
11 Time::Local - efficiently compute time from local and GMT time
15 $time = timelocal($sec,$min,$hours,$mday,$mon,$year);
16 $time = timegm($sec,$min,$hours,$mday,$mon,$year);
20 These routines are quite efficient and yet are always guaranteed to agree
21 with localtime() and gmtime(). We manage this by caching the start times
22 of any months we've seen before. If we know the start time of the month,
23 we can always calculate any time within the month. The start times
24 themselves are guessed by successive approximation starting at the
25 current time, since most dates seen in practice are close to the
26 current date. Unlike algorithms that do a binary search (calling gmtime
27 once for each bit of the time value, resulting in 32 calls), this algorithm
28 calls it at most 6 times, and usually only once or twice. If you hit
29 the month cache, of course, it doesn't call it at all.
31 timelocal is implemented using the same cache. We just assume that we're
32 translating a GMT time, and then fudge it when we're done for the timezone
33 and daylight savings arguments. The timezone is determined by examining
34 the result of localtime(0) when the package is initialized. The daylight
35 savings offset is currently assumed to be one hour.
37 Both routines return -1 if the integer limit is hit. I.e. for dates
38 after the 1st of January, 2038 on most machines.
47 $epoch = (localtime(2*$DAY))[5]; # Allow for bugs near localtime == 0.
49 $YearFix = ((gmtime(946684800))[5] == 100) ? 100 : 0;
54 $ym = pack(C2, @_[5,4]);
55 $cheat = $cheat{$ym} || &cheat;
56 return -1 if $cheat<0 and $^O ne 'VMS';
57 $cheat + $_[0] * $SEC + $_[1] * $MIN + $_[2] * $HR + ($_[3]-1) * $DAY;
63 my (@lt) = localtime($t);
64 my (@gt) = gmtime($t);
66 my $tzsec = ($gt[1] - $lt[1]) * $MIN + ($gt[2] - $lt[2]) * $HR;
68 my($lday,$gday) = ($lt[7],$gt[7]);
72 elsif($gt[5] > $lt[5]) {
76 $tzsec += ($gt[7] - $lt[7]) * $DAY;
79 $tzsec += $HR if($lt[8]);
82 return -1 if $cheat<0 and $^O ne 'VMS';
83 @test = localtime($time);
84 $time -= $HR if $test[2] != $_[2];
93 croak "Month '$month' out of range 0..11" if $month > 11 || $month < 0;
94 croak "Day '$_[3]' out of range 1..31" if $_[3] > 31 || $_[3] < 1;
95 croak "Hour '$_[2]' out of range 0..23" if $_[2] > 23 || $_[2] < 0;
96 croak "Minute '$_[1]' out of range 0..59" if $_[1] > 59 || $_[1] < 0;
97 croak "Second '$_[0]' out of range 0..59" if $_[0] > 59 || $_[0] < 0;
100 $year += $YearFix if $year < $epoch;
102 while ($diff = $year - $g[5]) {
103 $guess += $diff * (363 * $DAY);
105 if (($thisguess = "@g") eq $lastguess){
106 return -1; #date beyond this machine's integer limit
108 $lastguess = $thisguess;
110 while ($diff = $month - $g[4]) {
111 $guess += $diff * (27 * $DAY);
113 if (($thisguess = "@g") eq $lastguess){
114 return -1; #date beyond this machine's integer limit
116 $lastguess = $thisguess;
118 @gfake = gmtime($guess-1); #still being sceptic
119 if ("@gfake" eq $lastguess){
120 return -1; #date beyond this machine's integer limit
123 $guess -= $g[0] * $SEC + $g[1] * $MIN + $g[2] * $HR + $g[3] * $DAY;
124 $cheat{$ym} = $guess;