Besides localtime<\/span>, there is simply time<\/span>. It returns the number of seconds since January 1, 1970 on the Windows system I use, as well as on most others (tutorialspoint.com)<\/a>.<\/p>\n These few lines of code The time is 1421093858<\/span><\/p>\n There is even more to Perl’s handling of time than we’ve seen so far. Perl offers a veritable vector of time information to those desiring it. Consider the following little program: Running the lines above, you may be greeted with output like this: For now, this wraps up my coverage of Perl time functions. HIH:)<\/p>\n Source: McGrath, Mike. Perl in easy steps<\/em>. Southam: Computer Step, 2004.<\/p>\n
\nIn yesterday’s post<\/a> I began about Perl’s time utilities.<\/p>\n
\n
\n#!\/usr\/bin\/perl
\n$tim0=time;
\nprint “The time is $tim0\\n”;<\/span>
\nwill hopefully give output like<\/p>\n
\n
\n#!\/usr\/bin\/perl
\n@timarray=localtime;
\n$length=@timarray; #gives length of the array<\/span>
\nfor($i=0; $i<$length; $i++){
\nprint “Element $i of Perl’s time array is $timarray[$i]\\n”;
\n}<\/p>\n
\n
\nElement 0 of Perl’s time array is 2 \/\/seconds<\/span>
\nElement 1 of Perl’s time array is 44 \/\/minutes<\/span>
\nElement 2 of Perl’s time array is 12 \/\/hours<\/span>
\nElement 3 of Perl’s time array is 12 \/\/the day this month<\/span>
\nElement 4 of Perl’s time array is 0 \/\/the month: Jan=0<\/span>
\nElement 5 of Perl’s time array is 115 \/\/the year: 1900=0<\/span>
\nElement 6 of Perl’s time array is 1 \/\/day of the week: Sun=0<\/span>
\nElement 7 of Perl’s time array is 11 \/\/the day this year:Jan 1=0<\/span>
\nElement 8 of Perl’s time array is 0 \/\/daylight savings: no=0, yes=1<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n