Hi Monks!
I have a module that creates log files and uses localtime to get the time for the logs. My question is when I try to call this subroutine from the module from inside of a loop, the time from localtime keeps the same, I think that the call should happen on every interaction of the loop, creating a different time stamp for every line printed on this log file, instead all the lines have the same time as the first line created. Here is the example:

This is part of the code inside the module:
sub LOGGIN
{
....
 open(LOG, ">>$log") 
      or croak "Unable to append to $log: $!";
  print LOG "[$localtime] $log : @data \n";
 close LOG or die "Cannot close log file:: $log : $!\n";

....
}

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Now here, I am calling it into my code, everything it's fine but when I look at the log lines:
#test code
my $i=0;        
for (my $count=1; $count<11; $count++)
{
$i++;

app_log($log,"Loading transac from \$file - $1");

print "cool<br>";
}

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The times are all the same:
[Fri Feb 14 09:28:30 2005] test_of_log.txt : Loading transac  
[Fri Feb 14 09:28:30 2005] test_of_log.txt : Loading transac 
[Fri Feb 14 09:28:30 2005] test_of_log.txt : Loading transac 
[Fri Feb 14 09:28:30 2005] test_of_log.txt : Loading transac
[Fri Feb 14 09:28:30 2005] test_of_log.txt : Loading transac
[Fri Feb 14 09:28:30 2005] test_of_log.txt : Loading transac  
[Fri Feb 14 09:28:30 2005] test_of_log.txt : Loading transac 
[Fri Feb 14 09:28:30 2005] test_of_log.txt : Loading transac
[Fri Feb 14 09:28:30 2005] test_of_log.txt : Loading transac
[Fri Feb 14 09:28:30 2005] test_of_log.txt : Loading transac
....

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I just can't figure it out, shouldn't I get seconds apart on each line? Any help?
Thanks a lot!

In reply to Localtime Updating by Anonymous Monk

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