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You'll want to read about localtime and POSIX:
Converts a time as returned by the time function to a 9-element array with the time analyzed for the local time zone. Typically used as follows: # 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(time);mkmcconn
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