On Jun 27, Walt Mankowski said:
>On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:53:12PM -0500, Steve Howard wrote:
>> I would suggest using the localtime function. That will work regardless of
>> OS.
>>
>> ($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday, $isdst) =
>> localtime(time);
>> ($mon, $year) = ($mon+1, $year+1900);
>
>That doesn't quite work, since %m and %d zero-pad their values. If
>you just need the date in one variable, call localtime as above, then
>use sprintf to format them correctly:
Or use the POSIX::strftime() function, which uses its own %X formats to
create a date string.
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