in reply to time as number

use Acme::Time::Asparagus qw(veggietime); print veggietime();

Heh...or maybe you should try something like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(ti +me); $yy = sprintf("%02d", $year % 100); $str = $yy . join('', map(sprintf("%02d", $_), $mon, $mday, $hour, $ +min, $sec)); print $str, "\n";

Although I'd recommend using the 4-digit form of the year, obtainable above as $yyyy = $year += 1900

Matt