Hello Monks... I am using date extraction in my scripts for comparison with Oracle database dates (in mm/dd/yyyy format). The script which I am using is 
my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst)=localtime(tim
+e);
my $currSysDate;
my $currYear;
my $day;
$year = $year + 1900;
$mon = $mon+1;
$day = $mday;
if($mon <10){
    $mon ="0$mon";
}
if($day <10){
    $day ="0$day";
}
$currSysDate = join("/",$mon,$day,$year);
print "$year \n";
print "$currSysDate \n";

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Now the question is that this does not seem to be a very good approach. as incase I try to increment the month just before the "join" the date will again have single digit month. So is there a better approach to simply get the date in mm/dd/yyyy format so that it can be compared with oracle database date format. Thanks

In reply to Formats for date. by Nesh

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