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

Short and sweet, no additional modules needed:

my $toDate = `date +%m/%d/%Y" "%l:%M:%S" "%p`;

Output for example would be: 04/25/2017 9:30:33 AM