Re: Print time in Date"T"time+Gmtoffset

[frozenwithjoy]

Is the colon required in the offset for your purposes? If not:

perl -E '
use POSIX;
say strftime "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z", localtime();
' 
2014-03-31T23:37:59-0700

If you want the colon and no zero-padding, you could grab the offset by itself (strftime "%z", localtime();), throw a colon in it and drop the leftmost digit if it is 0. Or there might be an easier way.

[ikegami]

Allowing the leading zero to be dropped would be a bad choice of format as it would no longer be an iso8601 timestamp. (Adding a colon is fine.)

[techman2006]

Thanks but I need a colon in timezone as need to put it in a xml file which understand that notation only.

[Anonymous Monk]

then do it in two steps :) second step being adding colon to timezone