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

Like someone else mentioned, you can use localtime, but I would parse it with Date::Format. It'll give you the timestamp formatted in pretty much any way you need it.