Well, to go along with the other example(s), here is a way of doing it using the localtime() function:
use strict; use warnings; my ($second, $minute, $hour, $dayOfMonth, $month, $yearOffset, $dayOfWeek, $dayOfYear, $daylightSavings) = localtime(); my $monthnum = $month + 1; my %monthname = ( 1 => 'January', 2 => 'February', 3 => 'March', 4 => 'April', 5 => 'May', 6 => 'June', 7 => 'July', 8 => 'August', 9 => 'September', 10 => 'October', 11 => 'November', 12 => 'December', ); print("The present month is: $monthname{$monthnum}\n"); Regards, Jeff