in reply to golfing on localtime
perl -le 'print scalar localtime'
Or if you're pickier about the format:
perl -MPOSIX=strftime -le 'print strftime "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", localti +me'
Oh, and in your original code, print sprintf can be abbreviated to printf.
"The first rule of Perl club is you do not talk about
Perl club."
-- Chip Salzenberg
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