in reply to extract month and year from localtime

use POSIX();
my @lt = localtime ;
my $year  = POSIX::strftime( '%Y', @lt );
my $month = POSIX::strftime( '%m', @lt );

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See Re: error on file open, Re^2: Date plus Time sort from file ( Time::Piece->strptime/strftime example, Re: Subtracting minutes from a string ( Time::Piece->strptime )

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