On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, neuroticimbecile wrote:
..
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, you wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm looking for a way to convert epoch seconds into a readable format like
> > "Jun 12 2000" or "Feb 01 2001" using Perl :)
> 
> try localtime(),
> 
> print(localtime(time()))

when localtime() returns a scalar, you can't control how the output
"looks" hence

print POSIX::strftime("%blah", localtime($my_time))

is more flexible.

Update 'to hah, Mr FrancisV.. na-typo ko yung earlier mail ko. It's
strftime not sprintf  =)


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