localtime val
Converts the value returned by time to a
nine-element list with the time corrected for the local time zone.
It's typically used as follows:
($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) =
localtime(time);$mon (month)
has the range 0..11, and
$wday (weekday)
has the
range 0..6. The year has had 1,900 subtracted from it.
(You can remember which ones are 0-based because those are the ones
you're always using as subscripts into 0-based arrays containing
month and day names.)
If
val
is omitted, it does
localtime(time).
For example, to get the name of the current day of the week:
The Perl library module Time::Local contains a subroutine,$thisday = (Sun,Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri,Sat)[(localtime)[6]];
timelocal(),
that can convert in the opposite direction.In scalar context, localtime returns a ctime(3)-like string
based on the localtime value.