How do I convert a date/time to epoch time (unix time/seconds since 1970) in Perl?

Question

Given a date/time as an array of (year, month, day, hour, minute, second), how would you convert it to epoch time, i.e., the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 GMT?

Answer 1

To parse a date, look at Date::Parse in CPAN.