Date manipulation

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

$date = scalar(localtime(time));

print "$date\n";

OUTPUT:
Fri Mar  8 08:47:42 2002
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How can I get the output to be:
Mar 8, 2002

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Re: Date manipulation by Juerd (Abbot) on Mar 08, 2002 at 13:53 UTC
POSIX (strftime) Time::Piece (strftime) And if you really want to manipulate: Date::Manip 44696420796F7520732F2F2F65206F 7220756E7061636B3F202F6D736720 6D6521203A29202D2D204A75657264	[reply]
Re: Date manipulation by Kanji (Parson) on Mar 08, 2002 at 14:07 UTC
As Juerd suggests, I think `strftime` is the best way to go simply for flexibility, but another way to do it is ... `printf "%s %d, %d\n", ( split " " => scalar localtime )[1,2,4];` [download] Or `$date = sprintf ...` if you need it as a var. --k.	[reply] [d/l]