Re: Problem printing a system value to a filehandle (windows)

[Brett W. McCoy]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Mark Folse wrote:

> I started out doing the same thing on my NT box many moons ago, and
> found this more reliable and easier to manage:
>
> ($day,$month,$date,$time,$year)=split (/ /,localtime);

localtime can also be used directly in a list context, for more
flexibility:

my ($day, $month, $year) = (localtime)[3,4,5];

You just have to remember to add 1900 to the year value!

-- Brett
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