my $now = localtime;
my @t = split /\s/, $now;
splice @t, 3, 1;
$now = join ' ', @t;

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That won't work very well during the first nine days of the month: 

$ perl -le'
my $now = localtime 1260043200;
print $now;              
my @t = split /\s/, $now;
splice @t, 3, 1;
$now = join " ", @t;
print $now;
'
Sat Dec  5 12:00:00 2009
Sat Dec  12:00:00 2009

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In reply to Re: Using split, splice, and join to remove time from scalar context return of localtime() by jwkrahn
in thread Using split, splice, and join to remove time from scalar context return of localtime() by jffry

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