How do you read the system time and date in Perl?

Question

I need to read the system clock (time and date) and display it in a human-readable format in Perl.

Currently, I\'m using the following method (which I found here):

Answer 1

Use localtime function:

In scalar context, localtime() returns the ctime(3) value:

$now_string = localtime;  # e.g., "Thu Oct 13 04:54:34 1994"