dthacker has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
I've have a program that copies files from a log directory to an archive directory and appends a date stamp to the end of the filename. After looking at some other code locally I used this sub to create the datestamp:
sub get_time_stamp() { my @tan=Today_and_Now(); my $stamp=join '', @tan[0..4]; return $stamp; }
Unfortunately this is giving me YYYYMDDHHMM instead of YYYYMMDDHHMM. Is there a more effective way of getting the string I want than padding the output of Today_and_Now?
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Re: Creating a string for a date stamp
by danboo (Beadle) on Sep 20, 2001 at 00:39 UTC | |
Re: Creating a date stamp (Russ: POSIX::strftime)
by Russ (Deacon) on Sep 20, 2001 at 01:19 UTC | |
Re: Creating a string for a date stamp
by mitd (Curate) on Sep 20, 2001 at 05:08 UTC |
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