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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

by Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour
June 2002
Beginner content levelBeginner
759 pages
80h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

localtime

Synopsis

localtime val
                  

Converts the value returned by time to a nine-element list with the time corrected for the local time zone. It’s typically used as follows:

($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) =
        localtime(time);

All list elements are numeric. The element $mon (month) has the range 0..11, and $wday (weekday) has the range 0..6. The year has had 1,900 subtracted from it. (You can remember which elements are 0-based because you’re always using them as subscripts into 0-based arrays containing month and day names.) If val is omitted, it does localtime(time). For example, to get the name of the current day of the week:

$thisday = (Sun,Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri,Sat)[(localtime)[6]];

The Perl library module Time::Local contains a subroutine, timelocal( ), that can convert in the opposite direction.

In scalar context, localtime returns a ctime(3)-like string based on the localtime value.

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