I have a MySql database which contains a time field with the following values i.e 20011023083000 which translates to yyyymmddhhmmss(year,month,day,hour,minutes,seconds). So i want to know if there is a Perl time function that grabs the day and time in the same fashion that MySql does since that's what i know how to use. Or if i can just grab the time from other functions and put it together to look like the MySql time.