RE: date() function does not work in Windoze...

2005-10-17 Thread Brian Raven
Petr Vileta wrote: - Original Message - From: Eric Hanchrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: activeperl@listserv.ActiveState.com Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 8:08 PM Subject: Re: date() function does not work in Windoze... I must say I'm appalled at the number of people who suggest

Re: date() function does not work in Windoze...

2005-10-17 Thread $Bill Luebkert
Brian Raven wrote: This just the standard Perl documentation but is, I think, a fair point, and I am tempted to say Well, that's Microsoft for you, but that may not be entirely fair. However, google is your friend. It didn't take me long to find this link

Re: RE: date() function does not work in Windoze...

2005-10-17 Thread Petr Vileta
- Original Message - From: Hicks, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Petr Vileta [EMAIL PROTECTED]; activeperl@listserv.ActiveState.com Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 7:22 PM Subject: **SPAM** RE: date() function does not work in Windoze... Yes Eric, you are absolutely right, but you write

Re: date() function does not work in Windoze...

2005-10-14 Thread Eric Hanchrow
I must say I'm appalled at the number of people who suggest sprintf instead of strftime. People of Earth, I implore you: read about strftime. It's what you want. -- A hacker would consider being asked to write add x to y giving z instead of z = x+y as something between an insult

Re: date() function does not work in Windoze...

2005-10-14 Thread Petr Vileta
- Original Message - From: Eric Hanchrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: activeperl@listserv.ActiveState.com Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 8:08 PM Subject: Re: date() function does not work in Windoze... I must say I'm appalled at the number of people who suggest sprintf instead of strftime

date() function does not work in Windoze...

2005-10-13 Thread Lincoln, Adym
Title: date() function does not work in Windoze... Hi all, I know this has been asked, but I couldn't find anything on the web or in ActiveState's search of the mailing list. How do you obtain a timestamp/date in the form of MMDD-HHMISS from ActivePerl's date() function on Windoze

RE: date() function does not work in Windoze...

2005-10-13 Thread Bowie Bailey
From: Lincoln, Adym [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, I know this has been asked, but I couldn't find anything on the web or in ActiveState's search of the mailing list. How do you obtain a timestamp/date in the form of MMDD-HHMISS from ActivePerl's date() function on Windoze? The

Re: date() function does not work in Windoze...

2005-10-13 Thread Eric Hanchrow
Adym == Lincoln, Adym [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adym How do you obtain a timestamp/date in the form of Adym MMDD-HHMISS from ActivePerl's date() function on Adym Windoze? I wasn't aware there even _was_ a function called date. Here's what I'd do: use POSIX; $myDate =

Re: date() function does not work in Windoze...

2005-10-13 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi Adym - At 2005-10-13, 09:18:13 you wrote: Hi all, I know this has been asked, but I couldn't find anything on the web or in ActiveState's search of the mailing list. How do you obtain a timestamp/date in the form of MMDD-HHMISS from ActivePerl's date() function on Windoze? The

Re: date() function does not work in Windoze...

2005-10-13 Thread Petr Vileta
Lincoln, Adym wrote: Hi all, I know this has been asked, but I couldn't find anything on the web or in ActiveState's search of the mailing list. How do you obtain a timestamp/date in the form of MMDD-HHMISS from ActivePerl's date() function on Windoze? The following code doesn't want to

Re: date() function does not work in Windoze...

2005-10-13 Thread Lloyd Sartor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/13/2005 02:18:13 PM: How do you obtain a timestamp/date in the form of MMDD-HHMISS from ActivePerl's date() function on Windoze? The following code doesn't want to work : chop(my $myDate = `date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S`); The backticks are an escape to execute

Re: date() function does not work in Windoze...

2005-10-13 Thread David . Wright
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