Re: [MacPerl] newbie alert :-) question on the date thing...

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 01.46 8/15/97, Paul Evad wrote:
>Anyway, php has a function where you can format a date string by passing a
>format string to it, like date("Y, m d H:i:s",$date) (where $date is a unix
>time stamp).
>
>I looked around but couldn't find a similar thing for perl (to my limited
>knowledge). Time::Local didn't seem to be what I wanted (am I wrong
>there?).

There is a module called Date::Format on CPAN (http://www.perl.org/CPAN/)
which does this.

#!perl -w
use Date::Format;
@date1 = localtime();
$date2 = strftime('%A, %B %e, %Y',@date1);
print $date2,"\n";

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