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Typically used as follows:</p> <pre><code> # 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(time);</code></pre> <p>All list elements are numeric, and come straight out of the C `struct tm'. $sec, $min, and $hour are the seconds, minutes, and hours of the specified time. $mday is the day of the month, and $mon is the month itself, in the range <code>0..11</code> with 0 indicating January and 11 indicating December. $year is the number of years since 1900. That is, $year is <code>123</code> in year 2023. $wday is the day of the week, with 0 indicating Sunday and 3 indicating Wednesday. $yday is the day of the year, in the range <code>0..364</code> (or <code>0..365</code> in leap years.) $isdst is true if the specified time occurs during daylight savings time, false otherwise.</p> <p>Note that the $year element is <i>not</i> simply the last two digits of the year. If you assume it is, then you create non-Y2K-compliant programs--and you wouldn't want to do that, would you?</p> <p>The proper way to get a complete 4-digit year is simply:</p> <pre><code>$year += 1900;</code></pre> <p>And to get the last two digits of the year (e.g., '01' in 2001) do:</p> <pre><code>$year = sprintf("%02d", $year % 100);</code></pre> <p>If EXPR is omitted, <code>localtime()</code> uses the current time (<code>localtime(time)</code>).</p> <p>In scalar context, <code>localtime()</code> returns the ctime(3) value:</p> <pre><code>$now_string = localtime; # e.g., "Thu Oct 13 04:54:34 1994"</code></pre> <p>This scalar value is <b>not</b> locale dependent, see <a href="/5.8.2/perllocale">perllocale</a>, but instead a Perl builtin. Also see the <code>Time::Local</code> module (to convert the second, minutes, hours, ... back to seconds since the stroke of midnight the 1st of January 1970, the value returned by time()), and the strftime(3) and mktime(3) functions available via the POSIX module. To get somewhat similar but locale dependent date strings, set up your locale environment variables appropriately (please see <a href="/5.8.2/perllocale">perllocale</a>) and try for example:</p> <pre><code>use POSIX qw(strftime); $now_string = strftime "%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y", localtime;</code></pre> <p>Note that the <code>%a</code> and <code>%b</code>, the short forms of the day of the week and the month of the year, may not necessarily be three characters wide.</p> </dd> </dl> </div> <div id="footer"> <p>Perldoc Browser is maintained by Dan Book (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/DBOOK">DBOOK</a>). 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