A few notes:

One, for timestamps, usually just time(); is enough. Why pretty format a date you are going to stick in a dB? Work with the time in seconds and save your sanity. Or else look at $time = localtime(); and see if the date string that puts out is good enough. localtime puts out a nice pretty string when assigned to a scalar variable rather than an array.

$month += 1; might be easier than creating the array lookup table @month. And a nice shortcut when you do need that is my @month = 1..12;

Your AM/PM logic is really weird. Try: 

my $ap= $hour>11 ? "PM" : "AM";
$hour = $hour % 12; 
$hour = $hour || 12;

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sprintf is your friend. You can lose all the "zero padding" code and do this: 

$date = sprintf '%3s:%02d:%02d:%4d', @days[$wday], $mday, $mon, $milly
+ear; 
$time = sprintf '%02d:%02d:%02d:%2s:%11s', $hour, $min, $sec, $ap, $da
+te;

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Sure, it is all nitpicky stuff but once you look at it, ain't Perl cool?

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In reply to Re: help with time stamp by extremely
in thread help with time stamp by tanger

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