rmck wrote: > I cant get localtime to print in "mm-dd-yyyy hh:mm:ss" , I keep > getting it like so "Sun Dec 28 03:35:19 2003"
POSIX::strftime gives you complete control over the format. use POSIX 'strftime'; print strftime('%m-%d-%Y %H:%M:%S', localtime), "\n"; perldoc POSIX -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>