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xqus has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi!! I have a number 960662500.
That is the time of next update to a page.
Is it a way i can print this to that page in a normal way.
eg, May 15 2000 ??


-xqus

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Re: Dates and time.
by plaid (Chaplain) on Jun 11, 2000 at 01:00 UTC
    Take a look at several methods listed in the Q&A here.
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(jcwren) RE: Dates and time.
by jcwren (Prior) on Jun 11, 2000 at 00:54 UTC
    You can do this:  print scalar localtime (960662500));which will yield 'Sat Jun 10 14:41:40 2000'

    --Chris
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Re: Dates and time.
by Zoogie (Curate) on Jun 11, 2000 at 01:03 UTC
    Use localtime:    print scalar localtime(960662500); If you want it in "MMM dd YYYY" format, you can use: 
       use POSIX qw(strftime);

   print(strftime("%b %d %Y",localtime(960662500)));

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RE: Dates and time.
by Adam (Vicar) on Jun 11, 2000 at 04:08 UTC
    You can use the default format returned by scalar localtime or you can do your own. Localtime is slick in that it converts the input (non-leap seconds of the epoch... usually from Jan 1 1970) into an array of useful data. You can then access that array and use the info any way you want. I definately recomend viewing the man page but I'll give you an example:
    @info = localtime( $time ); # You provide $time, or get it from time()
$stamp = (Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, June, July, Aug, Sept, Oct, Nov, De
+c)[$info[4]];
$stamp .= ' ';
$stamp .= $info[3];
$stamp .= ' ';
$stamp .= 1900 + $info[5];
print $stamp;

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    This gives the format you suggested of Month DD YYYY
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