in reply to Dateless in Denver...

my $mdyt = `date '+%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S'`;

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It displays correctly because the date command is outputting it to stdout, not because of "print $mdyt".

You could also say (a bit more efficient) 

use POSIX;
my $mdyt = strftime('+%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', localtime(time));

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Re^2: Dateless in Denver...
by jwkrahn (Abbot) on Aug 11, 2006 at 22:42 UTC
    The '+' character is how the date command recognizes the format, POSIX::strftime will just return a literal '+' character so: 
    use POSIX 'strftime';
my $mdyt = strftime '%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', localtime;

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