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Answer: How do I find today's date?
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Q&A > dates and times > How do I find today's date? contributed by vroom

use localtime or Time::localtime 
my($day, $month, $year)=(localtime)[3,4,5];
print "$day-".($month+1)."-".($year+1900)."\n";

# or
use Time::localtime;
$tm=localtime;
my ($day,$month,$year)=($tm->mday,$tm->month,$tm->year);

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Edited to fix precedence errors in localtime() version as noted by 3dbc

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