perldoc -f localtime should help you; here is your code: 
my @time = localtime;
my $time = sprintf "%04d" . "%02d" x 5, 
                   $time[5] + 1900,   # year
                   $time[4] + 1,      # month
                   @time[3, 2, 1, 0]; # day, hour, minute, second
print $time;

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Hope this helped.
CombatSquirrel.

Update: Consider using one of the following modules:

1.) Time::Format. Example: 
use Time::Format qw/%time/;

my $time = $time{'yyyymmddhhmmss'};
print $time;

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2.) Date::Format. Example: 
use Date::Format;

my $time = strftime "%Y%m%d%H%M%S", @{[localtime]};
print $time;

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Cheers.
Entropy is the tendency of everything going to hell.

In reply to Re: Date Extraction by CombatSquirrel
in thread Date Extraction by Anonymous Monk

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