Date format for PERL in Windows

[ranjank]

Hi,

I'm facing the problem wrt to Date format while executing the script in windows.It is properly running in Unix.The date format in Unix is
$Date=`date \"%m %d %y \"`;

When i try to execute this in windows it is givng me the error : "System cannot accept the Date entered"

Perl is installed in windows machine.

Any help on this will be highly appreciated.

Regards,
RK.

 

[tonykent]

This works on my XP machine:

$day='30';
$month='06';
$year='2005';
$Date='date'.' '.$day.'-'.$month.'-'.$year;
system("$Date");

 

[ranjank]

Thanks for the reply.I need something that works in Unix as well as windows.The same format for both.Is it possible?

Thanks,
RK.

 

[tonykent]

The date format required by my HPUX box differs from that of my XP workstation.

HPUX requires:
date -u mmddhhmmccyy

whilst XP is looking for:
date dd mm ccyy

With these 2 system I don't see how you can use one command for both since the commands differ! The best I can think of is to use an if statement - if Windows do command 1, if unix do command 2.

 

[ishnid]

ranjank - are you trying to set the date or get the date in a particular format?

 

[pcunix]

If you are really trying to change the system date, then you need different code for different platforms as noted above.

But if you are just trying to work with a date different than the system date, you can use Time::Local to convert mo day year values to epoch seconds.

Tony Lawrence
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http://aplawrence.com