Hi, thanks, this was exactly what I needed. Storm -- Registered Linux user number 508465: http://counter.li.org/ Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stormdragon2976 My blog, Thoughts of a Dragon: http://www.stormdragon.us/ Get yourself a Frostbox: http://www.frostbitesystems.com/ PULL MUH FANGER! http://is.gd/bowEl On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 10:58 -0400, Humberto Rodriguez wrote: > > > Hello Storm: > > Since it seems nobody has answered you, I'll give you my two cents' > worth: > > To break the function localtime into its components, do: > > my ($nsec,$nmin,$nhour,$nday,$nmon,$nyear) = localtime(time); > > HTH, > > Humberto > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Storm Dragon > To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 9:20 PM > Subject: A Perl time question > > > > Hi, > I don't know very much about perl, and I can't seem to find > the answer to this anywhere. > I have this line in a script I am trying to modify slightly: > print "--" . localtime time . "\n\n"; > It produces a time stamp like: > Thu Aug 19, 20:48 2010 > I would like it to just give the time in 12 hour format, as > in: > --09:19PM > Is this a pretty simple modification? > Thanks > Storm > -- > Registered Linux user number 508465: > http://counter.li.org/ > Follow me on Twitter: > http://www.twitter.com/stormdragon2976 > My blog, Thoughts of a Dragon: > http://www.stormdragon.us/ > Get yourself a Frostbox: > http://www.frostbitesystems.com/ > PULL MUH FANGER! > http://is.gd/bowEl > > > >