in reply to TIME: Adding Up and Predicting it

You don't need to use `date`. Querying and printing the time can be done easily with just core perl. Take a look at time, localtime, gmtime and strfime() in POSIX

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Re^2: TIME: Adding Up and Predicting it
by Trizor (Pilgrim) on Aug 24, 2007 at 14:37 UTC
    If you need more than those functions provide, check out the many modules under the Date::* and Time::* namespaces on .
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