Re: How to get the time_t value from a Wx::DateTime

For my own education, is this a problem of version? I ask because on my
3.0.1 system, I spent some time last night digging around and in
wx/datetime.h I found:

   GetTicks()
   return (time_t)((m_time/(long)TIME_T_FACTOR.ToLong()) +
WX_TIME_BASE_OFFSET

   where m_time is the internal representation(milliseconds),
             TIME_T_FACTOR is 1000(milliseconds to seconds)
             WX_TIME_BASE_OFFSET is 0

And statements like - Currently we don't know what is the real type of
time_t so prefer to err on the safe side and limit it to 32 bit values...

James


On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Steve Cookson - gmail <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
> GetTicks() returns the number of seconds since the start of 1970.
>
> It seems to be the same as GetTimeNow, but as you say, neither seem to be
> wrapped.
>
> However, Perl is so rich in various functions and as you don't seem to
> need any particular GUI control, I suggest you use something from cpan, eg
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~chorny/DateTime-Format-Epoch-
> 0.13/lib/DateTime/Format/Epoch.pm
> http://search.cpan.org/~bzajac/DateTime-Precise-1.05/
> lib/DateTime/Precise.pm
> http://search.cpan.org/~stbey/Date-Calc-6.3/lib/Date/Calc.pod
>
> I don't use it them, but they seems to do what you want.
>
> Regards
>
> Steve.
>
>
> On 31/12/14 22:29, Dave Hayes wrote:
>
>> Maybe I'm dense, but I have searched a lot for how to get the time_t
>> value -out- of a Wx::DateTime object. I've tried GetTicks() which is in the
>> docs, but this method is not in the Perl version of this. I even tried
>> unreferencing the scalar reference.
>>
>> The only (untested at the moment) idea I can come up with is:
>>
>>   $dt_object = $some_date_picker_ctrl_widget->GetValue(); # because
>> GetDate() doesn't work
>>   $now = time();
>>   $timespan = $dt_i_want->Subtract(Wx::DateTime->new($now));
>>   $the_time_i_want = $timespan->GetValue() + $now;
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>
>