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DateTime - Get as Unix Time String

Demonstrates the GetAsUnixTimeStr method.

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Chilkat2 Perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

my $dateTime = Chilkat2::DateTime->new;

$dateTime->SetFromCurrentSystemTime();

# (in seconds since the epoch: 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970)
my $bLocal = 1;
print 'Unix time: ', $dateTime->GetAsUnixTimeStr($bLocal), "\n";

# Sample output for test run on 2-Dec-2016:

#     Unix time: 1480661608