Good evening monks!!

I've got a small question here.
I'm currently working on a application that checks out webpages for errors and such and uploads the info gathered to a database. Its almost done! But I'm just missing one thing. I can't get the datetime to be uploaded to the database. So, here's what I've got:

When I use this line: my $time = localtime(time); the resulting string is like this: Wed Mar 30 00:13:59 2005 . However, I need that info to look like this: 2005-03-30 00:13:59. I know...this is REALLY simple stuff :S Now, the problem is that I am clueless as to how I can manage to work with this string bit by bit, reformatting every "word" to create a string understandable by MySQL.

First I would like to know if there is any module out there that can do this form me. I've checked in CPAN under "datetime" search, but I don't seem to find anything of interest. If there is none, I can do it myself right now, but for that, I would need someone to explain me first how to go through the string, word by word.

In reply to Converting localtime to SQL format by Deib

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