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extracting the date from the server and printing to a file

rottweiler
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May 31, 2000, 7:36 AM

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extracting the date from the server and printing to a file	Can't Post

I have a shopping basket which drops a text file onto the secure server. The text file needs a date of transaction. I have found the date command as "/bin/date" and have tried to print the contents to the text file.
I get no errors at all the basket still works but the word date and the date from the server is still missing.
To print to the text file i have used this instruction print LOCALFILE "DATE -$date\n\n";

mckhendry
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May 31, 2000, 2:01 PM

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Re: extracting the date from the server and printing to a file [In reply to]	Can't Post

Try using the localtime subroutine.

example:

my @time = &localtime();

but you will have to add 1900 to get the current year, example:

$time[5] += 1900;

you would then do this to print out today's date.

print "$time[4] $time[3], $time[5]\n";

hope this helps

[This message has been edited by mckhendry (edited 05-31-2000).]

DrZed
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Jun 6, 2000, 7:58 AM

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Re: extracting the date from the server and printing to a file [In reply to]	Can't Post

Also, you can simply use the following:

$date=localtime(time);
print "$date\n";

This will give you a date in the following format:
Tue Jun 6 11:54:58 2000

Also note that you can use gmtime() in place of localtime().

Using the array is fine if you want to extract elements, or to use numbers instead of text. This is simply another option.

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