Re: getting $date

spam wrote: 
Graham Gough <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


perldoc -f localtime


That probably is what I'm looking for, but the perldoc page isn't (to
me, a newbie) very clear .. 

Converts a time as returned by the time function to a 9-element
               list with the time analyzed for the local time zone.
Typically
               used as follows:

                   #  0    1    2     3     4    5     6     7     8
                   ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst)
= localtime(time);

OK, so in my code, I put ... 

my $date = localtime ($day, $mday, $year) ;

No surprises: it doesn't work. 

All other combinations (locatime inside brackets, outside brackets, with
curly brackets, with $ in front, after, in the middle ..) don't work.

You need to master elemntary perl first, before trying such am ambitous project B-{)

my @tvec = localtime();
my $date = sprintf("%02d%02d%02d", $tvec[3], $tvec[4]+1, $tvec[5] % 100);

Josef
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