sub makeDate {
    (my $sec, my $min, my $hour, my $mday, my $mon, my $year, my $wday
+, my $yday, my $isdst) = localtime(time);
    $year += 1900;

    $sec =~ s/^(\d)$/0$1/;
    $min =~ s/^(\d)$/0$1/;
    $hour =~ s/^(\d)$/0$1/;
    $mon++;
    $mon =~ s/^(\d)$/0$1/;
    $mday =~ s/^(\d)$/0$1/;

    my $date = "$mon\_$mday\_$year\_$hour$min$sec";
    return $date;
}

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I use this for creating very readable and sortable unique directory names for our code builds. I prepend the build information to the date string returned above. An example would be: BETA_13__10_05_05_10000

In reply to munging the date for various uses by montanaperl

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