All,

I'm trying to get the date/time in the following format: month/day/year hour:minute:second.

In a Linux Environment I did the following: 

use Date::Manip

my $format = "%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S";
my $start = &UnixDate(&ParseDate("today"), $format);

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This worked fine, but the problem is the Windows environment I am using is a very slimmed down version of Perl and I don't have the authority to install new modules. So, I'd prefer to use what's available.

So, I'm looking for alternatives that would work in both environments. I was looking for way to manipulate the output of localtime() into the above format, but I'm not having much luck.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

In reply to Getting a date/time in a certain format in a Windows and Linux environment by TASdvlper

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