Re: Formats for date.

[BaldPenguin]

You could also use:

$currSysDate = sprintf("%02d/%02d/%04d",$mon,$day,$year);

But it should be noted that if you use this approach, no validation occurs. You could create a bad date;

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[ikegami]

Are you implying that strftime does validation? I can't find any documentation to support that. Validation isn't needed anyway, since he's printing out the result of localtime.

[BaldPenguin]

Actually, what I was implying was that if the localtime was read and then a value such as month were to be incremented, then sprintf() would print out a bad date( i.e. 13/30/2005). You are correct in that passing localtime straight to strftime would not require validation, if any were to exist. Thanks.

True validation could be accomplished using Date::Calc or DateTime or similar to increment the date values.

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