Re: How to get the current Date and Time using Perl on windows?

In the windows world, the date command is generally used for setting the date.

If you want a human-readable date/time stamp, then probably the simplest way is to use localtime.

For example:

C:\>perl -le "print scalar localtime"
Wed Jan  2 15:27:20 2008
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Cheers,
Darren :)

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Re^2: How to get the current Date and Time using Perl on windows? by goibhniu (Hermit) on Jan 02, 2008 at 21:32 UTC
As everyone has pointed out, there are much better, more perlish ways to do it, but here my $0.02 in the interest of TIMTOWTDI in case you're in a DOS batch file mindset. First, `date /?` reports: `Displays or sets the date. DATE [/T \| date] Type DATE without parameters to display the current date setting and a prompt for a new one. Press ENTER to keep the same date. If Command Extensions are enabled the DATE command supports the /T switch which tells the command to just output the current date, without prompting for a new date.` [download] If Command Extensions are missing, you can pipe the ENTER like this: `echo.\|date` which is a little harder to parse, but also doesn't require setting the date. C:\chas_sandbox>perl -le "print `date /T`" Wed 01/02/2008 C:\chas_sandbox>perl -le "print `echo.\\|date`" The current date is: Wed 01/02/2008 Enter the new date: (mm-dd-yy) C:\chas_sandbox> [download] I humbly seek wisdom.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: How to get the current Date and Time using Perl on windows? by McDarren (Abbot) on Jan 03, 2008 at 01:15 UTC
The problem with this is that the OP was after a date and time stamp, and the DOS date command only gives the date. You could I suppose use a combination of both the date and time commands, but that would be just silly™ Obviously, the OP has a script that was written for a *nix environment and he is trying to port it to winders.	[reply]
Re^4: How to get the current Date and Time using Perl on windows? by goibhniu (Hermit) on Jan 03, 2008 at 16:41 UTC
touchée. What version of ACME::ESP are you runing? Mine seems out of date (no pun intended; well, ok, maybe intended a little ;) ). I humbly seek wisdom.	[reply]