I know I am going to get shunned for not showing you the ways on CPAN but I have a peice of code that I just copy into any script that needs a time stamp. I know it works on Win NT and Linux.

 



@months = ('Jan','Feb','Mar','Apr','May','June',
                 'July','Aug','Sept','Oct','Nov','Dec');

@days = ('Sun','Mon','Tue','Wed','Thu','Fri','Sat');

($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday) = (localtime(time))[0,1,2,3,4
+,5,6];
$year=$year+1900;

$date = " $days[$wday], $months[$mon]/$mday/$year $hour:$min:$sec";
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With this it is very simple to change the format of the date or test certain parts of the date.

--Joe