Re^2: How to get the current Date and Time using Perl on windows?

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.
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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>
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I humbly seek wisdom.

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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 Mine seems out of date (no pun intended; well, ok, maybe intended a little ;) ).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]