Wow, that was painless - thanks :)

perldoc -f localtime

Check out strftime in the POSIX module. Allows you to format (more or less) how you want.

Thanks.

Another quick question if I may :)

The current server is setup as PST.

ultranerds@east ~ $ date
Fri Nov 14 05:33:17 PST 2008

How would I go about increasing (and decreasing, depending on the timezone I wish to show the date stamp in), the output from PST, to say GMT , or another timezone.

I guess its something like:

hours difference from GMT * 60 * 60 +(or -) the timestamp

would that be about right?

TIA!

Andy

Presuming your libc plays along, in theory you can diddle $ENV{TZ} and get the right representation from the same time_t value. Otherwise you're going to want to look into DateTime and let it and DateTime::TimeZone convert things around for you.

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use strict;
use warnings;

my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(1
+226667500);

printf("%02d/%02d/%04d %02d:%02d:%02d\n",
$mday, $mon+1, $year+1900,$hour, $min, $sec);
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Outputs