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

The simplest one-liner print statement to print localtime in clear, readable format is:

print scalar localtime (); #Output: Fri Nov 22 14:25:58 2019