Try this.
$thisday = (Sun,Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri,Sat)[(localtime)[6]];
$thisdate = (localtime)[3];
if ($thisdate == 1 || $thisdate == 21 || $thisdate == 31) {
$thisdate .= "st";
} elsif ($thisdate == 2 || $thisdate == 22) {
$thisdate .= "nd";
} elsif ($thisdate == 3 || $thisdate == 23) {
$thisdate .= "rd";
} else {
$thisdate .= "th";
}
$thismonth =
(Janurary,Feburary,March,April,May,June,July,August,September,October,Novemb
er,December)[(localtime)[4]];
$thisyear = (localtime)[5] + 1900;
print "$thisday $thisdate $thismonth $thisyear";
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 05 December 2001 16:29
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: today's date....
There are a number of date formatting routines available at
http://search.cpan.org/.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shinagare, Sandeep [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 11:27 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: today's date....
>
>
> Hi Folks!
> Trying to get todays date and month... was able to find this...
>
> #snip-start
> use Time::localtime;
> $tm = localtime;
> ($DAY, $MONTH, $YEAR) = ($tm->mday, $tm->mon, $tm->year);
> #snip-end
>
> this gives me the Day and Month in numbers.. anyway in which i
> can get "Mon","Tue","Wed" and "Jan","Feb","Mar" etc.. other than
> coding the conversion?
>
> Thanks,
> Sandeep
>
>
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