As my title implies, I am trying to come up with a method within perl that creates the same output as the above unix date command. I have the (very cludgy) following:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(t
+ime);

$year = $year+1900; $mon = $mon+1;
if ( $mon < 10 ) {
  $mon = "0$mon";
}

my $yyyymmdd = "$year$mon$mday";

print "$yyyymmdd\n";

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Although this works, I can barely believe that there is not a better way. I read a few posts about Time::Local but it didnt seem to provide method with that much savings in typing. Was I overlooking the benefits?

humbly -c

Edit ar0n -- more title descriptive

In reply to Formatting date strings (was: date +%Y%m%d) by c

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