I needed to stick today's date into the output for a program and couldn't get it to work. I followed the Cookbook's example too. Here's the defective code: 
use strict;
use Time::localtime;

my ($day, $month, $year) = (localtime)[3,4,5];
print "$month/$day/$year\n";
my $s = "$month/$day/$year";
print "s: $s\n";

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And it returns: 
Use of uninitialized value at test.pl line 5.
Use of uninitialized value at test.pl line 5.
Use of uninitialized value at test.pl line 5.
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Now, here's the strange part. If I remove the use Time::localtime; line, then the script does exactly what it's supposed to. I couldn't find any mention of this being a bug and all of the examples I'm seeing include the use ... line.

By leaving out the line, am I going to run into problems down the road? Thanks for your advice.

I'm also aware this will print 103 as the year. I'm using the straight value for simplicity here.

In reply to Getting Today's Date - Strange Problem by svsingh

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