Printing out a formated date

[DarVar]

Hi I want to be able to print out the date in a formatted string

The format doesn't particularly matter
Something like this
Tue Mar 28 16:02:04

I read about localtime??

print "$localtime

 

[columb]

Without wishing to preach RTFM too much - have you looked at this page whcih gives all the perl builtin functions.

Columb Healy

 

[Xaqte]

How about this:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $now = scalar(localtime(time));

print $now;

Let us know your results!

X

 

[KevinADC]

or simply:

print scalar localtime();

if you wanted to print the current time and date, or:

print scalar gmtime();

for gm time.

 

[Kirsle]

There's a module you can get from CPAN called Time::Format.

use Time::Format;

print time_format ('Weekday, Month dd yyyy @ H:mm{in}:ss A.M.');

"Tuesday, March 28 2006 @ 5:29:30 P.M."

http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Time::Format

 

[DarVar]

Hi,
I used the code posted by Xaqte

It works fine on its own but I get the following printed out in my script:
Time::tm=ARRAY(0x1c3148)[Time::tm=ARRAY(0x1c3148)]