On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Yacketta, Ronald wrote:

> I do not get the 0 as in 09 , 08, 07 ,06 etc..
>
> what could I do to ensure that the $sec is _always_ 2 digits?

Precede your format specifier with 0#:

~$ perl -e 'printf("%02d\n", 6);'
06
~$ perl -e 'printf("%03d\n", 6);'
006

-- Brett

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