I generally recommend using a module for all date/time operations, as it will take over a lot of the details and work for you. There is Time::Piece, a core module since Perl v5.10:

use Time::Piece;
my $t = localtime;
print "Date1 is : ",$t->strftime("%d-%b-%Y"),"\n";
print "Date2 is : ",$t->strftime("%d-%m-%Y"),"\n";
print "Time1 is : ",$t->strftime("%H:%M:%S"),"\n";
print "Time2 is : ",$t->strftime("%I:%M:%S %p"),"\n";
__END__
Date1 is : 07-Okt-2017
Date2 is : 07-10-2017
Time1 is : 10:19:42
Time2 is : 10:19:42 
# - OR - under the en_US locale:
Date1 is : 07-Oct-2017
Date2 is : 07-10-2017
Time1 is : 10:19:42
Time2 is : 10:19:42 AM

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And my personal favorite is DateTime, since it gives you a lot of powerful tools, including proper time zone handling. In the following I'm letting the module determine the current local time zone, although I recommend specifying one explicitly if possible. Note that it defaults to the en_US locale unless you specify a different one to the object.

use DateTime;
my $dt = DateTime->now(time_zone=>'local');
print "Date1 is : ",$dt->strftime("%d-%b-%Y"),"\n";
print "Date2 is : ",$dt->strftime("%d-%m-%Y"),"\n";
print "Time1 is : ",$dt->strftime("%H:%M:%S %Z"),"\n";
print "Time2 is : ",$dt->strftime("%I:%M:%S %p %Z"),"\n";
__END__
Date1 is : 07-Oct-2017
Date2 is : 07-10-2017
Time1 is : 10:19:42 CEST
Time2 is : 10:19:42 AM CEST

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In general, I strongly recommend you Use strict and warnings.

In reply to Re: date and time using localtime by haukex
in thread date and time using localtime by sreek3502

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