How to convert dd/mm/yyyy to epoch time in Perl?

Question

I have searched several hours for a formula to convert dd/mm/yyyy format into epoch time but have not found a solution.

I have two dates, after converting from 2 different formats, that are now like this "08011985" and "09302014". I have to convert them to epoch time to get the difference from earliest and latest date, and do something based on the size of the spread.

I can't install any modules and am on 5.8.8.

Answer 1

The built-in module Time::Local provides the inverse of localtime and gmtime, timelocal and timegm. They take dates and times and return epoch time.

perlfaq4 covers these sorts of questions.