in reply to localtime - make the date format different?

Date::Format: 
$ perl -wle 'use Date::Format; my @lt = localtime((stat(q{/etc/passwd}
+))[9]); print strftime("%c", @lt);'
11/08/08 11:27:57

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Consult the documentation to get the output exactly how you want it.
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