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From: Gunnar Hjalmarsson on 4 May 2008 18:00
Keith Keller wrote:
> On 2008-05-04, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <noreply(a)gunnar.cc> wrote:
>> Keith Keller wrote:
>>> perl date formatting has nothing to do with UNIX date; %Y for example
>>> is the hash named Y, and bears no relation at all to your call to
>>> localtime. Read perldoc -f sprintf for valid formats (%Y is
>>> certainly not one).
>>
>> Wouldn't it have been better to point the OP to POSIX::strftime() and
>> drop that rant?
>
> Was I ranting? I thought I was just being complete. Thanks for the
> pointer to POSIX::strftime; I seldom use the POSIX:: modules.

The attempt to use the string '%Y%m%d-%H%M' in a date formating context
told us that the OP was groping for strftime(). Considering that Owen
had figured it out several hours before you posted, I found it not very
fruitful to lead the OP away from that date formating method.

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