in reply to Date format YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM-SS

... by formating it that way. For example with POSIX::strftime.

Many time-related modules (like DateTime, Date::Calc etc.) also have convenience methods for formatting dates and times.

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Re^2: Date format YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM-SS
by builat (Monk) on Oct 13, 2013 at 12:08 UTC
    For *nix like systems the lame but the fast way is my $date = `date +"%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S"`;
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