my @TimeArray = localtime(time); my $year = sprintf ("%04d",$TimeArray[5]+1900); my $monthasnum = sprintf ("%02d",$TimeArray[4]+1); my $day = sprintf ("%02d",$TimeArray[3]); my $hour = sprintf ("%02d",$TimeArray[2]); my $minute = sprintf ("%02d",$TimeArray[1]); my $datestamp = "$year"."_"."$monthasnum"."_"."$day"."_"."$hour" ."_"."$minute" ;