#!usr/bin/perl use say; use strict; use warnings; use POSIX q(strftime); my @abc = ("a", "b", "c", "d", "e"); sub fetchTime { return POSIX::strftime('%a, %d %b %Y %T %z', localtime); } for (@abc) {say fetchTime() . "\t$_"; sleep 1;} __END__ $ perl time.pl Wed, 07 Jun 2017 14:08:31 +0200 a Wed, 07 Jun 2017 14:08:32 +0200 b Wed, 07 Jun 2017 14:08:33 +0200 c Wed, 07 Jun 2017 14:08:34 +0200 d Wed, 07 Jun 2017 14:08:35 +0200 e