Howdy,
another solution for your date-system-call would be to use

$date = qx/date +'%d.%m.%Y (%H:%M:%S)'/;
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But nowadays I'd prefer the use of strftime (like davorg posted) because it's more within perl (I like avoiding systemcalls whenever I know another way)

Regards
Stefan K

$dom = "skamphausen.de";   ##   May The Open Source Be With You!
$Mail = "mail@$dom;  $Url = "http://www.$dom";
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