Category Archives: Linux

Get DateTime in YYYY-mm-dd HH:MM:SS format using Perl

For many years I’ve been using the long process of obtaining everything from localtime(), adding 1900 to the year etc. etc. but I’ve just come across the method below, which uses strftime from the POSIX module. use POSIX;   my $DateTime = strftime "%F %T", localtime $^T; This gives you: 2006-10-02 02:06:07 Now that’s a [...]