in reply to The function localtime(time) returns wrong month . How to overcome this problem ??

I wonder if you'd care to suggest how we could improve the documentation for localtime to make it more obvious how to solve your problem. Currently the docs say this:

... $mday is the day of the month, and $mon is the month itself, in the range 0..11 with 0 indicating January and 11 indicating December.

If you're formatting dates for outputting to the user, let me recommend a proper date formatting tool, like POSIX::strftime or DateTime or Date::Calc.

If all you need is the number of the month, how about just adding 1 to the number?

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Re^2: The function localtime(time) returns wrong month . How to overcome this problem ??
by nevyn (Monk) on Feb 23, 2006 at 21:28 UTC

    Change it from...

    $mon is the month itself, in the range 0..11 with 0 indicating January and 11 indicating December.

    ...to...

    $mon is the month offset, in the range 0..11 with 0 indicating January and 11 indicating December.

    ...as the former implies that $mon is the number of the month which people might assume starts at 1 (and stop reading). But my guess is that anyone who has a problem hasn't read the current docs. (but, hey at least they don't just assume tm_year is the last two digits nowadays).

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    James Antill
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