$ ls -l monlog.txt
-rw------- 1 h h 10755194 2008-05-30 12:59 monlog.txt
$ perl -le 'print scalar localtime((stat)[9]) for @ARGV' monlog.txt
Fri May 30 12:59:45 2008
$ perl -MFile::stat -le 'print scalar localtime(stat($_)->mtime) for @
+ARGV' monlog.txt
Fri May 30 12:59:45 2008

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Worked pretty well here. What do you mean with "i use the local time module to build a time function to tell me what time it is, and anytime the use::localtime module is active and i use the localtime function i get errors"?? If you have a local "localtime.pm" module, change its name and the name of the "faux-localtime" function, because it's not good practice to clobber core functions' names.
Update: used File::stat like becca23 did.
[]s, HTH, Massa (κς,πμ,πλ)

In reply to Re^3: Getting the timestamp of a file by massa
in thread Getting the timestamp of a file by becca23

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