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DATETIME in excel

 


bert.baeck
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Feb 3, 2007, 3:22 AM

Post #1 of 8 (17617 views)
DATETIME in excel Can't Post
Hello,

I installed the datetime::format::excel and I can get my date out of a Excel field!!!

yyyy:mm:dd hh.mm.ss

But that's not ok! I also need my time information!!! Anybody knows how I can get that information out of Excel so I can send it to Mysql database?

This would realllllllllllllly help me!!!! I'm on a deathline ;-)

Thanks,

Bert from Belgium


KevinR
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Feb 3, 2007, 10:52 AM

Post #2 of 8 (17615 views)
Re: [bert.baeck] DATETIME in excel [In reply to] Can't Post
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hh.mm.ss
is that not the time informaton?
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bert.baeck
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Feb 3, 2007, 11:16 AM

Post #3 of 8 (17613 views)
Re: [bert.baeck] DATETIME in excel [In reply to] Can't Post
No that's not the information... When you read something out of Excel, you get a unique number!!! This 1 number is the whole information DATE AND TIME


KevinR
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Feb 3, 2007, 11:44 AM

Post #4 of 8 (17612 views)
Re: [bert.baeck] DATETIME in excel [In reply to] Can't Post
but is that the correct time information (hh.mm.ss) you are looking to send to your mysql database even if the date is in front of it? You could split that on the space and make two variables out of it.
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bert.baeck
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Feb 4, 2007, 12:14 AM

Post #5 of 8 (17607 views)
Re: [KevinR] DATETIME in excel [In reply to] Can't Post
I explain a little bit further...

I have a field in Excel with datetime ex. "2007/12/23 23:12:11" Once it is a variable in Perl it's a
unique number 208962,121320000. This contains every information. There is a function: datetime:format:Excel which gives me the date!!! That's fine so i can write it to MySql!! But an other
field in Excel is the time but... I don't know how to get that...

Bert


ProBulletin
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Feb 4, 2007, 3:10 AM

Post #6 of 8 (17605 views)
Re: [bert.baeck] DATETIME in excel [In reply to] Can't Post
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Once it is a variable in Perl it's a
unique number 208962,121320000.
A unique number...what do you mean?

Is it the seconds since epoch?...if so you can get the time.


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KevinR
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Feb 4, 2007, 11:41 AM

Post #7 of 8 (17602 views)
Re: [ProBulletin] DATETIME in excel [In reply to] Can't Post
I'm confused too Crazy
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davorg
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Feb 5, 2007, 7:23 AM

Post #8 of 8 (17599 views)
Re: [bert.baeck] DATETIME in excel [In reply to] Can't Post
Excel stores dates and times as a floating point number. The integer is the number of days since Jan 1st 1900 and the decimal part is a fraction of a day (.0 is midnight, .5 is noon, etc).

DateTime::Format::Excel takes a number in this format and converts it to a Perl DateTime object. Once you have the DateTime object you can use any of its methods to get the date and time in whatever format you like.

The documentation for DateTime::Format::Excel has an example that uses the "ymd" method to get the date. But you can also use the hms method to get the time. Or any of the other myriad methods of the DateTime object.

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