This is misbehaving (in the sense of not doing what you want; in the strictly technical sense, it's behaving perfectly), because you're assigning localtime to an array. When you do this, you get a nine element array with the following components: ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst)

On the other hand, if you assigned it to a scalar, then you'd get a printable string: 

$yesterday=localtime(time()-86400);
print $yesterday;

[download]
Wed Dec 18 16:58:19 2002

--
Tommy
Too stupid to live.
Too stubborn to die.

In reply to Re: Re: Simple date calc by tommyw
in thread Simple date calc by aennen

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.