perlmeditation
holli
The [Posix]-module has a very nice function called <code>strftime()</code> that is capable of formatting dates and times to a human readable format.<br><br>
But ... the manpage is not very descriptive. It tells you nothing about the meanings of the parameters in the format string.<br><br>
Unix/Linux users can read about them by typing
<code>
$ date --help
</code>
(thanks [blokhead] for advising me on that), but Windows users are lost.
<br><br>
Therefore, in the hope it will help somebody*, i post this little script, that can serve both as a reference and as an example.
<code>
use strict;
use POSIX qw(strftime);
print strftime qq{
a: Day of Week (short, text) %a
A: Day of Week (long, text) %A
b: Monthname (short, text) %b
B: Monthname (long, text) %B
c: Full datetime (number, long) %c
d: Day (number) %d
H: Hour (24 hour) (number) %H
I: Hour (12 hour) (number) %I
j: Day of year (number) %j
m: Month (number) %m
M: Minutes (number) %M
p: am/pm/empty (text) %p
S: Seconds (number) %S
U: Week of Year (number) %U
w: Day of week (number) %w
W: Week of Year (number) %W
x: date (number) %x
X: time (number) %X
y: year (short, number) %y
Y: year (long, number) %Y
Z: timezone (text) %Z
},
localtime;</code><br>
<b>Notes:</b><br>
The parameters %U and %W, are not identical. %U starts counting the Week Of Year at sundays, %W starts counting on mondays.<br>
The %p parameter can be empty, depending on the locale of the system.<br><br>
*and for my own convenience
<br><br>
Update: corrected typo for %M
<br>
Update: corrected typo for %I (thanks [bmann])
<br>
Update: retitled node from "strftime reference" to "strftime reference for win32"
<div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-241598">
<br><br>holli, <i>/regexed monk/</i>
</div></div>