truncate is a file thing, you can use substr to limit the length of a scalar.

$string = substr($string,0,6);

ofcourse there are many ways to handle time/date stuff, besides cutting of the number of seconds since the Epoch (which is what time returns). You'll probably find localtime much handier.

Greetz
Beatnik
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