date and time [ php --> perl ]

php to perl [ date and time ]
Hi,
Im trying to find todays date and time in perl.. how do i do that??

I know how to do it in php.. but i dont know how to convert the php to perl

this is what i am doing in php

$date = date("m-d-y");
$time = date("g:i a T");

I want a replica of this output in perl..

any help would be great!

Hopefully this will help, I'm not too great at perl myself.

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#usr/bin/perl -w
use POSIX qw(strftime);
$nowdate = strftime "%m-%d-%y", localtime;
$nowtime = strftime "%I:%M %p %Z", localtime;

print "$nowdate\n";
print "$nowtime\n";
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This is pretty much straight from the perl documentation which you can check out here:

http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/localtime.html

for more info on the format strings try:

% man date

on your server.

-Jake-

You could also just do:

That will give you a string with the day time and date.

thanks.. problem solved