Re: Date function

boyd wrote:
something like:

my( $day, $mon, $yr ) = ( localtime( time - 24*3600) )[3, 4, 5];
$yr += 1900;
$mon += 1;
my $str = sprintf '%4d-%02d-%02d', $yr, $mon, $day;

would give you the prefix string for your filename.

What about DST? ;-)

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