Date & Time system variables

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RE: Date & Time system variables by Anonymous Monk on Dec 30, 1999 at 23:19 UTC
`localtime(); perl -le 'print scalar localtime()."\n";' Thu Dec 30 13:19:44 1999` [download] See also 'perldoc Time::Local' to break the current time into an array under perl5, and 'perldoc POSIX' and search for strftime() for more flexible printing.	[reply] [d/l]
RE: Date & Time system variables by da w00t (Sexton) on Dec 30, 1999 at 03:36 UTC
this should do it `# 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = gmtime(time);` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
RE: RE: Date & Time system variables by infoninja (Friar) on Dec 30, 1999 at 11:14 UTC
Can also use `# 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = (localtime)[0, +1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8];` [download] note that $mon is in the range 0..11, and $wday has the range 0..6 also, $year is returned as number of years since 1900 (currently a 2 digit number, but not a y2k problem)...	[reply] [d/l]