in reply to How do I find today's date?

You could also use Date::Manip
$date = ParseDate("today"); print "Today's Date is $date.\n";

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Re: Answer: How do I find today's date?
by sacked (Hermit) on May 11, 2004 at 13:56 UTC
    If you want to make the date more human-readable, you can use Date::Manip::UnixDate to format it:
    $date = UnixDate( ParseDate("today") => '%b %e, %Y' ); print "Today's Date is $date.\n"; # MMM DD, YYYY (day is space-padded)

    --sacked