time() returning the wrong time?

[nitrostar]

Hi, I'm trying to display the current time and date...

If I do this:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use POSIX;

print "Time is: ";
$test = time();
print "$test\n";
($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$month,$year) = gmtime($test);
print "$year-$month-$mday-$hour:$min:$sec\n";
print strftime "%Y-%m-%d-%H.%M.%S\n", gmtime;

I get this:
Time is: 1220390156
108-8-2-21:15:56
2008-09-02-21.15.56

Why am I getting month 8 in the second line? Isn't today september?

 

[Kirsle]

See this:

http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/localtime.html

The month is represented from 0 to 11, not 1 to 12. strftime() takes care of this stuff for you (also note the year is relative to 1900, so 1900 + 108 is 2008, in case you were wondering about that too).

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[nitrostar]

Awesome

I had found documentation on the +1900 but nothing on +1 for month....

I had fixed it using

print strftime "%Y-%m-%d-%H.%M.%S\n", gmtime($test);

Thank you so much!