Dates and time.

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Re: Dates and time. by plaid (Chaplain) on Jun 11, 2000 at 01:00 UTC
Take a look at several methods listed in the Q&A here.	[reply]
(jcwren) RE: Dates and time. by jcwren (Prior) on Jun 11, 2000 at 00:54 UTC
You can do this: `print scalar localtime (960662500));`which will yield 'Sat Jun 10 14:41:40 2000' --Chris	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Dates and time. by Zoogie (Curate) on Jun 11, 2000 at 01:03 UTC
Use localtime: `print scalar localtime(960662500);` If you want it in "MMM dd YYYY" format, you can use: `use POSIX qw(strftime); print(strftime("%b %d %Y",localtime(960662500)));` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
RE: Dates and time. by Adam (Vicar) on Jun 11, 2000 at 04:08 UTC
You can use the default format returned by scalar localtime or you can do your own. Localtime is slick in that it converts the input (non-leap seconds of the epoch... usually from Jan 1 1970) into an array of useful data. You can then access that array and use the info any way you want. I definately recomend viewing the man page but I'll give you an example: `@info = localtime( $time ); # You provide $time, or get it from time() $stamp = (Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, June, July, Aug, Sept, Oct, Nov, De +c)[$info[4]]; $stamp .= ' '; $stamp .= $info[3]; $stamp .= ' '; $stamp .= 1900 + $info[5]; print $stamp;` [download] This gives the format you suggested of Month DD YYYY	[reply] [d/l]