in reply to countdown to U1e9
This section is about obfuscation, not about the chr function...
Furthermore, obfuscated code often tends to compress code, rather than expanding it (by a factor of 3.7, if I did count correctly)... I won't mention other things, like elegance, artistry, clever use of little known features, etc...
printf $message, scalar(localtime), localtime($then - time), scalar localtime $then;
Pretty clever, indeed.
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