Quickly getting to YYYY-mm-dd HH:MM:SS in Perl

Question

When writing Perl scripts I frequently find the need to obtain the current time represented as a string formatted as YYYY-mm-dd HH:MM:SS (say 2009-11-29 14:28

Answer 1

if you just want a human readable time string and not that exact format:

$t = localtime;
print "$t\n";

prints

Mon Apr 27 10:16:19 2015

or whatever is configured for your locale.