Re: Formats for date.

You could also use:

$currSysDate = sprintf("%02d/%02d/%04d",$mon,$day,$year);
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But it should be noted that if you use this approach, no validation occurs. You could create a bad date;

Don
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Re^2: Formats for date. by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 28, 2005 at 21:51 UTC
Are you implying that `strftime` does validation? I can't find any documentation to support that. Validation isn't needed anyway, since he's printing out the result of `localtime`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Formats for date. by BaldPenguin (Friar) on Jun 28, 2005 at 23:21 UTC
Actually, what I was implying was that if the localtime was read and then a value such as month were to be incremented, then sprintf() would print out a bad date( i.e. 13/30/2005). You are correct in that passing localtime straight to strftime would not require validation, if any were to exist. Thanks. True validation could be accomplished using Date::Calc or DateTime or similar to increment the date values. Don WHITEPAGES.COM \| INC Edit by castaway: Closed small tag in signature	[reply]