G'day starface245,

The following examples are run on a Mac.

The localtime function may be sufficient for your needs:

$ perl -le 'print scalar localtime'
Thu Dec 12 04:41:39 2013
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For formatted dates, take a look at Time::Piece. Here's what the default format produces:

$ perl -MTime::Piece -le 'print localtime->strftime'
Thu, 12 Dec 2013 04:42:06 EST
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