help with print system time and date for win32

chuleto1 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Monks of the Monastary: Would any of you have a snippet for printing the system time and date on a Win32 System

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Re: help with print system time and date for win32 by myocom (Deacon) on Aug 14, 2002 at 21:12 UTC
`perldoc -f localtime` will reveal the details, but `print scalar localtime;` will do what you want, regardless of platform. "One word of warning: if you meet a bunch of Perl programmers on the bus or something, don't look them in the eye. They've been known to try to convert the young into Perl monks." - Frank Willison	[reply] [d/l] [select]