[MacPerl] time functions with MacPerl 5.1.3.r2

[David Beck <dfbeck@sandia.gov>]

I have read the several recent postings about the time formatting functions
in timelocal.pl (warned not to use!) and Time::Local. However, I can't even
do something as simple as getting the current system time, forget
formatting. Example:

 currtime = time();

When I try to use this statement I end up with an MacPerl error of:

# Can't modify constant item in scalar assignment, near ");"
File '<AppleEvent>'; Line 3
# Execution of <AppleEvent> aborted due to compilation errors.

Any suggestions?

Dave Beck



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