I've created a CGI form using perl, everything works really good, except I'm having a hard time finding a solution as to how I can get the current time and date filled in the form while giving the user the option to change the input with a date and time picker. here is pieces of code I've written:

sub output_form {
    my ($q) = @_;
    print $q->start_form(
        -name => 'main',
        -method => 'POST',
    );
    print $q->start_table;
    print $q->Tr(
      $q->td('Update#:'),
      $q->td(
        $q->textfield(-name => "update_num", -size => 02)
      )
    );
     print $q->Tr(
      $q->td('Date:'),
      $q->td(
        $q->textfield(-name => "date", -size => 50)
      )
    );
     print $q->Tr(
      $q->td('Time:'),
      $q->td(
        $q->textfield(-name => "time", -size => 50)
      )
    );
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