in reply to Date extraction

for a simple script I always use 
$date = 'date "+%d-%b-%Y"';

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instead of loading a module.

forgive me prefering shell comands sometimes :)

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RE: Re: Date extraction
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 13, 2000 at 21:01 UTC
    For just getting the date and time, I use:

    $date = scalar gmtime;

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    No modules or shell commands!
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