Hey everybody, I wanted some help on these few lins of code. @f=(localtime)[3..5]; # grabs day/month/year values $SystemDate= sprintf "%d%02d%02d", $f[2] +1900, $f[1] +1, $f[0]; Right now $SystemDate has the value of yyyymmdd, so for eg it will print out today's date like below 20031217 I need it to print out the date as well as the timestamp so for eg it should print out below 20031217150506 so that will be today's date plus the time 15:05:06 (but without the colons) can someone help me modify the code pasted below so that it prints out what I want, Thanks for the input