I don't know what kind of representation is that you mention. The customary way to represent time at the OS level, is the number of seconds elapsed since Jan 1 1970 00:00:00 (the Epoch). This is, for instance, what time() returns.

I guess you can get your conversion by using some snippet such as:

my $time = some_function_returning_the_time_you_want();
print "The interesting time was ", scalar localtime($time), "\n";
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localtime() in a scalar context, will give you a nicely formatted string such as:

bash-2.05a$ perl -e 'print scalar localtime(), "\n"'
Thu Jun  5 08:48:44 2003
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In an array context, it will return the components of the date stamp. Please check your friendly perldoc -f localtime for the details.

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-lem, but some call me fokat