On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 08:32:20 +0100
Luca Ferrari <fluca1...@infinito.it> wrote:
> Hi all,
> often I find myself writing something like the following to get the
> "human" date:
>
> my ($day, $month, $year) = (localtime())[3..5];
> $month++, $year += 1900;
> print "\nToday is $month / $day / $year \n";
>
>
> I was wondering if there's a smarter pattern to get the right value in
> one single line. At least there's no simple "map" I can think of.
I tend to use DateTime to manipulate dates, so I'd say
something like DateTime->now->dmy('/');
It's a bit of a slow and heavyweight way to go about it if you're not
already planning to use DateTime, though :)
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