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Old 02-11-2016
Help with Formatting date in Perl

Good day.
I am trying to change the output on my date so that I can get the month as a numeric value.

Code:
TODAY=`perl -e 'print localtime(time()) . "\n" '`

Here are the results from the above perl statement
Code:
Thu Feb 11 13:16:40 2016

I am not sure of the syntax to get a date more like 10/20/2016 or anything that gives me a numeric value for the month day and year.

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 02-11-2016 at 03:27 PM..
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Old 02-11-2016
Code:
($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst)=localtime(time);
 printf "%02d/%02d/%d\n",  $mon+1, $mday, $year + 1900;
 printf "raw year: $year\n";
 printf "raw month: $mon\n";
 printf "raw day of month: $mday\n";

Some the values returned by localtime are not what you think -year starts with 1900, month is zero based = January = 0
output:
Code:
02/11/2016
raw year: 116
raw month: 1
raw day of month: 11

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Old 02-12-2016
Would that work?
Code:
perl -MPOSIX="strftime" -le 'print strftime("%m/%d/%Y", localtime)'

Code:
02/11/2016

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