in reply to Getting a date/time in a certain format in a Windows and Linux environment

POSIX::strftime should do the job on just about any platform.

. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use POSIX 'strftime';

my $start = strftime '%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', localtime;

print "$start\n";

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