use DateTime; $dt = DateTime->new( year => 1964, month => 10, day => 16, hour => 16, minute => 12, second => 47, nanosecond => 500000000, time_zone => 'Asia/Taipei', ); $dt = DateTime->from_epoch( epoch => $epoch ); $dt = DateTime->now; # same as ( epoch => time() ) $year = $dt->year; $month = $dt->month; # 1-12 - also mon $day = $dt->day; # 1-31 - also day_of_month, mday $dow = $dt->day_of_week; # 1-7 (Monday is 1) - also dow, wday $hour = $dt->hour; # 0-23 $minute = $dt->minute; # 0-59 - also min $second = $dt->second; # 0-61 (leap seconds!) - also sec