RE: RE: Atomic Time and Date

I keep getting:

C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /c perl time-date-other.pl
Couldn't set time: No such file or directory at time-date-other.pl line 14.
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I changed the last two lines to:

system("time $new_time");
system("date $new_date");
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and it works. It seems to be the:

or die "Couldn't set time: $!";
or die "Couldn't set date: $!";
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It doesn't work with those.
I don't have a clue as to why. ??!!??
I like it though.

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RE: RE: RE: Atomic Time and Date by mdillon (Priest) on Jun 05, 2000 at 19:52 UTC
no, i think it's the change from `system(CMD, ARGS)` back to `system(EXPR)` that fixed it. die doesn't do anything with a file or directory in that code, so i can't see it being the problem. maybe ActivePerl only likes the monadic (one argument) form of system. update: i may have figured it out. i think to do it my way, you would have to say 'TIME.EXE' or whatever the full name of the executable is because it isn't passed to COMMAND.COM to be resolved.	[reply]

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RE: RE: RE: Atomic Time and Date
by mdillon (Priest) on Jun 05, 2000 at 19:52 UTC

system(CMD, ARGS)

system(EXPR)

die

system

update: i may have figured it out. i think to do it my way, you would have to say 'TIME.EXE' or whatever the full name of the executable is because it isn't passed to COMMAND.COM to be resolved.

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