On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Thomas H. George <li...@tomgeorge.info> wrote:
> What is $dow in the line from Alpaca, p77:
>
> my ($sec, $min, $hour, $day, $month, $year, $dow) = localtime
It's the day of the week. 0 through 6 --> Sunday through Saturday. :)
>
> Curious, I wrote
>
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
> use strict;
> use Time::Local;
> use File::Find;
>
> my ($sec, $min, $hour, $day, $month, $year, $dow) = localtime;
> print "Day $day Month ", $month + 1, " Year ", $year + 1900, "\n";
> print "Dow $dow\n";
> print localtime, "\n\n";
> my @numbers = grep (//,localtime);
> for (@numbers) {
> print $_, "\n";
> }
>
> and found there are actually three numbers following the number for the
> year. The man page for Time::Local makes no mention of these.
You'd have to check the Time:::localtime man page which states this:
This module's default exports override the core localtime() function,
replacing it with a version that returns "Time::tm" objects. This
object has methods that return the similarly named structure field
name from the C's tm structure from time.h; namely sec, min, hour,
mday, mon, year, wday, yday, and isdst.
>
> Tom George
HTH,
Shrivats
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