From: Lincoln, Adym [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Hi all,
> I know this has been asked, but I couldn't find anything on the web
> or in ActiveState's search of the mailing list. How do you obtain a
> timestamp/date in the form of YYYYMMDD-HHMISS from ActivePerl's
> date() function on Windoze?
>
> The following code doesn't want to work:
> chop(my $myDate = `date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S`);
Your code is not using a Perl "date()" function. It is using the unix
"date" command, so it has no chance of working in Windoze.
Try this instead:
use POSIX qw(strftime);
my $myDate = strftime "%Y%m%d-%H%M%S", localtime;
(pulled from the docs for "localtime" in perlfunc)
Bowie
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