Hi,

Time::Piece is also a easy module. you can refer Time::Piece module for the localtime..It's an Object Oriented time objects. From the object you can get the year, month , day and also using the strftime you can get any format of localtime. Refer the sample code given below..

use Time::Piece;    
my $t = localtime;
print "Time is $t\n";
print "Year is ", $t->year, "\n";
print $t->strftime("%a, %d %b %Y");
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