timelocal brain freeze

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

It's been a while since i've had to use timelocal and can not seem to remember if the $mday is always double digit? For example, I can grab the day of the month using...

($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(time
+);
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but is the second day of the month 2 or 02?

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Re: timelocal brain freeze by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Nov 11, 2002 at 06:50 UTC
It sounds as if you need some particular output format for dates and times. See `&POSIX::strftime` for perl usage and 'man 3 strftime' for details of the formats available to this very handy time & date formatting function. The best part is that you never need to parse the output of localtime. `&POSIX::strftime` takes the same time structure that localtime produces, so localtime can be used as ~~a single~~the second argument for `strftime`. After Compline, Zaxo	[reply]
Re: timelocal brain freeze by Enlil (Parson) on Nov 11, 2002 at 06:04 UTC
The second day of the month is 2. If you it matters that the ~~one~~ zero is there before the two, one could always use `$mday = sprintf("%02d",$mday);` [download] -enlil	[reply] [d/l]
Re: timelocal brain freeze by roik (Scribe) on Nov 11, 2002 at 15:12 UTC
perldoc has this to say : $mon is the month itself, in the range 0..11 with 0 indicating January and 11 indicating December	[reply]