legacy import & date

[Ivan Kohler]

_date - specified as a UNIX timestamp; see the section on "time" in the
perlfunc manpage.  Also see the Time::Local manpage and the Date::Parse
manpage for conversion functions. 

I do plan a ut_date subroutine in Record.pm that would Date::Parse that
sort of thing automatically.  The european/american ordering is
troublesome.

On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Desk of the Technical Director wrote:

> I have the legacy import working for my customer data....almost.
> 
> I am down to 1 problem, dates.  they are in a mm/dd/yy format, but when I
> try to shove them in as $svc{'paydate'} and $cust_pkg{'bill'} I get
> errors.  I understand why, but I am no regex expert (if such a thing
> exists) and the formats for the two seem to be different (paydate will
> take mm/yyyy but bill will not).
> 
> Clue me in.  What date formats do I need and do you have a one-liner
> conversion.  I tried to use Date::Parse, but since I dont know what I am
> doing.....  
> 
> I will make up a 'paydate' if I can get 'bill' in correctly.
> 
> Also, is it ok if 'bill' = 'setup' or should setup always be < bill
> 
> 
> 
> 

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