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How do I get the date and time?

sleuth
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Dec 12, 2000, 5:05 PM

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How do I get the date and time?	Can't Post

There are many different methods to getting the data & time in perl, if your looking to just get the full date and time, you could do this:

$date_time = localtime;
print "$date_time";

OUTPUT:

Tue Dec 12 16:23:58 2000

To get each element of localtime and make your own format, just use this code:

@date_time = localtime;
$date = "@date_time";
($sec, $min, $hours, $mday, $month, $year, $wday, $yday, $isdst) = split(/\s/, $date);
$year += 1900;

All that last line does is bring the year up to 2000, since it's the year 2000 right now.

Other variables like the $month, start at 0, being January, to turn these numbers into the name of the months, you could make an array of months in the correct order and just call on the array value to print the month's name. Like so:

(@names) = ('January','February','March','April','May','June','July','August','September','October','November','December');
$month_name = "$names[$month]";
print "$month_name";

Output:

December

Since this was written in December.

I have attached a small txt file including a chart of the variables and there meanings to help you.

Also, you can use "gmtime" instead of "localtime" to get your date's and time's based on GMT time.

That concludes getting the date and time in perl.

Sleuth

Jasmine
Administrator

Jan 13, 2001, 1:59 PM

Post #2 of 6 (3724 views)

Re: How do I get the date and time? [CORRECTED] [In reply to]	Can't Post

FAQ Correction:

Code

($sec, $min, $hours, $mday, $month, $year, $wday, $yday, $isdst) = localtime();   
                # or localtime(time) -- time is the default value 
$year += 1900;  # add 1900 to year because $year is the current year minus 1900 
$month++;       # increment because month index starts at 0

sleuth
Enthusiast

Jan 15, 2001, 3:04 PM

Post #3 of 6 (3713 views)

Re: How do I get the date and time? [CORRECTED] [In reply to]	Can't Post

What did I do wrong?

Jasmine
Administrator

Jan 15, 2001, 4:21 PM

Post #4 of 6 (3710 views)

Re: How do I get the date and time? [CORRECTED] [In reply to]	Can't Post

There wasn't anything "wrong", But the assignments of @date_time and $date were just a roundabout way of doing localtime(time) and more prone to user-errors. IMHO, of course :)

sleuth
Enthusiast

Jan 18, 2001, 1:39 PM

Post #5 of 6 (3699 views)

Re: How do I get the date and time? [CORRECTED] [In reply to]	Can't Post

*Hugs*

Jasmine
Administrator

Jan 18, 2001, 5:38 PM

Post #6 of 6 (3697 views)

Re: How do I get the date and time? [CORRECTED] [In reply to]	Can't Post

*grin*

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