I'm helping a serverdude with a logfile summarization script.   Since the script will run daily, he'd like the output file to be named for the date in format yyyymmdd (with month and day leading-zero padded as needed).

The following snippet with localtime() and printf() are a start.   But there's clearly something I'm overlooking or misunderstand.   Suggestions for a Better Way To Do It?
    thanks,
    Don
    striving toward Perl Adept
    (it's pronounced "why-bick") 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(t
+ime);

printf ("%04d%02d%02d",$year+1900,$mon+1,$mday);
print "\n\n";
# result is 20010807
# good; exactly what was expected

my $ymd = printf("%04d%02d%02d",$year+1900,$mon+1,$mday);
print "$ymd";
print "\n\n";
# result is 200108071
# why the appended 1 ??

my $outfile = "$ymd.summary";
print "$outfile";
print "\n\n";
# result is 1.summary
# ????

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