This module can convert a DateTime object (or any object that can be converted to a DateTime object) to the number of seconds since a given epoch. It can also do the reverse. here's my proposed ebuild.
Created attachment 102987 [details] dev-perl/DateTime-Format-Epoch-0.10.ebuild dev-perl/DateTime-Format-Epoch-0.10 ebuild
Please, review the following and explain why is this ebuild needed in portage: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=3&chap=1#doc_chap2 Thanks.