in reply to Re: Extract System Time & Date in a perl so that it can be used in a perl program
in thread Extract System Time & Date in a perl so that it can be used in a perl program

davorg++ POSIX++ strftime++

I always use strftime and print out using ISO 8601 time format, here is a swift example

> perl -MPOSIX -le'print strftime("%Y-%m-%d %X", localtime)'
2006-01-31 18:13:37

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If you print your times in this format it makes them easy to compare or sort with gt/lt

Cheers,
R.

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