POSIX::strftime() is the way I like best. It uses formats similar to sprintf to write various time quantities from the time list returned by localtime. See man 3 strftime for a list of the format tags.

use POSIX qw(strftime);
print strftime("%a at %I:%M%p on %m/%d/%Y", localtime());
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Date::Calc is big if you use it all, but you can designate which routines you want to pull in:

use Date::Calc qw( Days_in_Year Days_in_Month ... );
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(right from the doc)


—Brad
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Date::Manip

Date::Format

Can you show us what you have tried? I'd like to see some code. Thanks.

Brad, Yes I have. heres one that I been playing with, just can get it to work

# $the_date=???; 
$date=localtime(); #This is the one I'm using now
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This is the one I want to use

$date = &datetime;
sub datetime { 
local(@t, $day, $month, $ap, $t1, $date); 
@t=localtime(time); 
$day=('Sun', 'Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 
'Thur', 'Fri', 'Sat')[$t[6]]; 
$month=('Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 
'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 
'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec')[$t[4]]; 
if($t[2] > 12) { 
$t[2]-=12; 
$ap='pm'; 
} 
else {$ap='am';} 
$t1=sprintf("%.2d", $t[1]); 
$yr=2000+$t[5]; 
# wkday mo moday yr hr min am/pm 
$date="$day $month $t[3], $yr, $t[2]:$t1 $ap"; 
return $date; 
}
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g0n - added code tags