Too bad Perl doesn't have the strftime function. If you want something really nice, how about implementing that, or binding to C's version via XS?

I think you could use sprintf with things like %02d instead of the loop to add leading zeros, and instead of concatenating everything together in $tstamp.

Check out Time::localtime. It does what you do on the hash assignment of localtime.

The %months=reverse(%months) bothers me. You're changing it each time the function is called, flipping it back and forth. That seems fishy. But, why not set up the lookup the way you need it in the first place?

—John

In reply to Re: formatted output of localtime() by John M. Dlugosz
in thread formatted output of localtime() by s0ttle

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