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

Time::Piece::datetime() can eliminate T.

use Time::Piece;
print localtime->datetime(T => q{ });