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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Perl help LocalTime in New Format Post 302565758 by Corona688 on Tuesday 18th of October 2011 04:18:23 PM
Old 10-18-2011
perl -e 'localtime()' prints nothing, and I wouldn't have expected it to. It doesn't print anything, just returns a list or scalar.

perldoc -f localtime has these suggestions for getting dates as you want:

Code:
                   use POSIX qw(strftime);
                   $now_string = strftime "%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y", localtime;
                   # or for GMT formatted appropriately for your locale:
                   $now_string = strftime "%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y", gmtime;

And suggests man strftime for an explanation of the strings strftime takes.
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Time::CTime(3)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					    Time::CTime(3)

NAME
Time::CTime -- format times ala POSIX asctime SYNOPSIS
use Time::CTime print ctime(time); print asctime(localtime(time)); print strftime(template, localtime(time)); strftime conversions %% PERCENT %a day of the week abbr %A day of the week %b month abbr %B month %c ctime format: Sat Nov 19 21:05:57 1994 %d DD %D MM/DD/YY %e numeric day of the month %f floating point seconds (milliseconds): .314 %F floating point seconds (microseconds): .314159 %h month abbr %H hour, 24 hour clock, leading 0's) %I hour, 12 hour clock, leading 0's) %j day of the year %k hour %l hour, 12 hour clock %m month number, starting with 1 %M minute, leading 0's %n NEWLINE %o ornate day of month -- "1st", "2nd", "25th", etc. %p AM or PM %r time format: 09:05:57 PM %R time format: 21:05 %S seconds, leading 0's %t TAB %T time format: 21:05:57 %U week number, Sunday as first day of week %w day of the week, numerically, Sunday == 0 %W week number, Monday as first day of week %x date format: 11/19/94 %X time format: 21:05:57 %y year (2 digits) %Y year (4 digits) %Z timezone in ascii. eg: PST DESCRIPTION
This module provides routines to format dates. They correspond to the libc routines. &strftime() supports a pretty good set of coversions -- more than most C libraries. strftime supports a pretty good set of conversions. The POSIX module has very similar functionality. You should consider using it instead if you do not have allergic reactions to system libraries. GENESIS
Written by David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com>. The starting point for this package was a posting by Paul Foley <paul@ascent.com> LICENSE
Copyright (C) 1996-1999 David Muir Sharnoff. License hereby granted for anyone to use, modify or redistribute this module at their own risk. Please feed useful changes back to muir@idiom.com. perl v5.12.1 2004-02-08 Time::CTime(3)
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