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in reply to How do I find today's date?

Example 1:

sub timestamp { return localtime (time); } print '[' . timestamp() . ']: Normal Time Format'. "\n";

Output 1:

[Sat Jan 8 11:59:07 2011]: Normal Time Format

Example 2:

use Time::localtime; sub timestamp { my $t = localtime; return sprintf( "%04d-%02d-%02d_%02d:%02d:%02d", $t->year + 1900, $t->mon + 1, $t->mday, $t->hour, $t->min, $t->sec ); } print '[' . timestamp() . ']: Custom Time Format'. "\n";

Output 2:

[2011-01-08_12:06:05]: Custom Time Format