Re: Script Help

On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 09:32:36AM -0500, Tamara Temple wrote:
>   if (hour > 12) {
>     $hour -= 12;
>     $daypart = "PM";
>   } else {
>     $daypart = "AM";
>   }
>
> and add in an indicator if it's AM or PM.
>
> Also, you can accomplish the formatting to $thetime with a single  
> sprintf() function call rather than making a whole lot of function calls 
> and concatenating them together:
>
>   $thetime = sprintf("!msg %02d.%02d.%02d %02d-%02d-%02d",
>        $hour, $min, $sec, $mday, $mon+1, $year+1900);

  Or you could just do the far more sensible:

use POSIX qw(strftime);

$thetime = strftime("%H:%M:%S %d-%m-%Y", localtime);

That's 24 hour format, check 'man strftime' for the format specifiers
for 12 hour and am/pm.  You probably want to include some indication of
timezone as well, IRC being an international thing (that'd be %z or %Z
in strftime).

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