Esteemed Anonymous Monk, our most prolific and inquisitive of brethren,

I've been advocating the use of strftime at work to prevent the continual hand rolling and re-rolling of customized time functions.

This one prints the current local time in YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS format:

use POSIX;

print strftime("%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S", localtime),"\n";
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If you are given the time in epoch seconds try this:

use POSIX;

print strftime("%A, %B %d, %Y", localtime($epoch)),"\n";
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which will output "Day of week, Month DD, YYYY". Check the Perl documentation for POSIX (perldoc POSIX) and if you are on UNIX you can also do a "man strftime" to get a good description of the format qualifiers.

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