Re: Time in Perl (examples in PerlMonks Q&A dates-and-times section, plus (s)printf)

As good monk belg4mit said, localtime ~~is likely~~ may be what you're looking for. The local perldoc is your friend, as is the PerlMonks search form at the upper left. But to get you started, try QandASection: dates and times, which contains several examples that may help.

Update: Depending on what you're going to do with your human-readable date/timestamp, printf (print a formatted string) and sprintf (return a formatted string) may also be worth delving into.

Oh yeah, and welcome to the Monastery!
    cheers,
    Don
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    (it's pronounced "why-bick")

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Re: Re: Time in Perl (examples in PerlMonks Q&A dates-and-times section, plus (s)printf) by {NULE} (Hermit) on Apr 28, 2002 at 14:50 UTC
To add a bit to what brother ybiC states there is another function that has made my life piles easier. `use POSIX; print strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", localtime),"\n"; # This displays the following: # 2002-04-28 10:52:32 # (Assuming I ran this when I was typing. {g})` [download] Do a man strftime to find out what all the formats are. {NULE} -- http://www.nule.org	[reply] [d/l]