I'm trying to get the hang of perl Tk. I thought an extreamly simple clock would be a good project. Getting the time is easy enough, as is displaying it. But what I want is a label that updates every second.

Anyway I went through the tk documentation, but it is very short on code examples, I tried to used the Tk::After method, but I didn't do anything new, I just get a window with a static time. I couldn't find anything I could use when I did a super search. Can someone point me in the right direction?

My project so far: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
    use Tk;
    $top = new MainWindow;
    $id = Tk::After->new($top->Label(-text =>&gettime)->pack,1000,'rep
+eat',\&gettime);
    MainLoop;

    
sub gettime{
    ($sec,$min,$hour,$day,$month,$year,$wday,$yday,$isDST) = localtime
+();
    @mname=("January","February","March","April","May","June",
            "July","August","September","October","November","December
+");
    @weekday=("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Frid
+ay","Saturday");
    for($sec,$min){$_="0$_"if($_<10);}
    $dst = $isDST?"Daylight Savings Time":"Standard Time";
    $year = $year +1900;
    $timestring= "$weekday[$wday] $mname[$month] $day," . $year . " $h
+our:$min:$sec$x\n";
}

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