Midnite,
You can use POSIX 'strftime';, which is part of the core. Chances are, print scalar localtime( timestamp ); will be sufficient. FWIW - perldoc -f stat since you seem to be asking two questions, how to get the modified stamp and then format it.
Thank you very much. I learned more today. I am not new to perl, but, gladly, I am still leraning it. Though this one as my boss says, is way 'geeky' ;)
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