When used in a scalar format localtime returns exactly what you show
below. But when used to return an array, it returns the number of years
since 1900. There's a good explanation in one of the links Dan mentions
above, but I can't seem to get into the deja archives right now <frown>.
Jeff
At 06:18 AM 1/1/00 Robert Davis wrote:
Ahoy
Yabbut ---
$test = localtime();
print $test;
prints "Sat Jan 1 09:17:14 2000"
no prob
Aloha
Davis