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

You can use localtime to get the time and the POSIX module's strftime to format it.

While it'd be nice to use Date::Format's and its strftime because it uses less overhead, the POSIX module is distributed with Perl, and is thus pretty much guaranteed to be on a given system.

use POSIX;
print POSIX::strftime( "%A, %B %d, %Y", localtime());
# Should print something like Wednesday, January 28, 2009
# ...if you're using an English locale, that is.
# Note that this and Date::Format's strftime are pretty much identical