It's annoying to use localtime. By default its output is kind of useless

perl -le 'print join(",", @{[localtime]}[5,4,3,2,1,0])'  
106,6,18,15,22,52

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You have to add some extra statements to put it into more readable form:

perl -le '@_=localtime;
  print sprintf("%4d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d",
                $_[5]+1900, $_[4]+1, @_[3,2,1,0])'
2006-07-18 15:57:36

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But I'm wondering if there's a more compact way to do it (can be obfuscated), in one statement. Without cheating. For example:

perl -le'print join(",", (@_=@{[localtime]}[5,4,3,2,1,0])
                    && ($_[0]+1900, $_[1]+1, @_[2..5]))'

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is obviously cheating, since the assignment and && basically make it into two statements (technically, no - but do you see the "spirit" of what I'm saying?). Can you do like a map on items in a list? I have something like this (non-working) in mind:

@t = (+ 1900, + 1, , , , ) = @{[localtime]}[reverse 0..5];

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I'm guessing not but thought I'd ask.

(tiny update: I had the order reversed in the last example)

In reply to golfing on localtime by ForgotPasswordAgain

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