Howdy zee12, welcome to the Monastery!

Do you want to create a folder the timestamp (i.e. last modified time) of which matches the current date, or a folder with a name that includes the current date? If the former, simply create it using mkdir, as Grandfather suggested.

If the latter, use mkdir, localtime (to get the current time) and the strftime function from the standard POSIX module (to format it nicely), e.g. like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use POSIX qw/strftime/;

mkdir strftime "man %Y-%m-%d", localtime;
[download]

The POSIX module's strftime function is just a wrapper around the underlying C function, so see the strftime(3) man page on your system for more information on the various flags you can use to format dates and times.

---

---

Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!

Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.

Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.

Please read these before you post! —

• How do I compose an effective node title?
• How do I post a question effectively?
• Markup in the Monastery

Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:

a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr

You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)

	For:		Use:
	&		&
	<		&lt;
	>		&gt;
	[		&#91;
	]		&#93;

Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?

See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.