On May 31, Ahmer Memon said:
>Later on I noticed the sprintf function. You can use this to format your
>dates and times without cycling through all the elements returned by the
>localtime function. Anyway I am pasting in a bit from one of my scripts
>that does just this:
>
>($sec,$min,$hour, $day,$mon,$year) = (localtime(time))[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
>
>$date_time = sprintf("%04u%02u%02u %02u:%02u:%02u",
> $year + 1900, $mon + 1, $day, $hour, $min, $sec);
Most people use %d rather than %u here.
Also, if you're familiar with Unix, you might like using the
strftime() function from POSIX.pm:
use POSIX 'strftime';
# localtime's default argument is time()
$date_time = strftime('%Y%m%d %H', localtime);
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