<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/13/2005 02:18:13 PM: > 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`); > The backticks are an escape to execute an operating system command. Use localtime() or gmtime() to get the date and time. Then format using sprintf.
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