#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Time::Local; print scalar localtime( epoch( '2005-03-28 12:00:00' ) ); sub epoch { my $stamp = shift; my($yr, $mon, $day, $hr, $min, $sec) = split /[ :-]/, $stamp; --$mon; return timelocal($sec, $min, $hr, $day, $mon, $yr); }