perldoc POSIX and man strftime 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;
use POSIX qw(strftime);

print strftime("%I:%M:%S %Y/%m/%d %p", localtime());

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Note I've used YYYY/MM/DD date format here, as you did in your example, but you state ARS wants the date in MM/DD/YYYY - so just change the appropriate letters.

Update: After looking at davorg's example (Bah - Beaten again :-) ) for a sec, he uses the %P (uppercase) format string - a GNU extension to strftime which returns the am/pm string in lowercase. %p (lowercase) returns it in uppercase - there's consistency for you. Still, it made me read the appropriate manual pages, so thanks davorg and AcidHawk.

Cheers


davis
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In reply to Re: AM/PM in date and time format by davis
in thread AM/PM in date and time format by AcidHawk

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