Time::CTime(3pm)

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💖 Time::CTime 💖

okay bestie, welcome to Time::CTime(3pm) — the perl manual page that formats times ala POSIX asctime, and honestly? it's giving timeless. 🕰️✨

✨ NAME ✨

Time::CTime -- format times ala POSIX asctime

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

look at this, it's so clean:

use Time::CTime
print ctime(time);
print asctime(localtime(time));
print strftime(template, localtime(time));

🦋 strftime conversions 🦋

every single one, no skips, periodt:

  • %% — PERCENT
  • %a — day of the week abbr
  • %A — day of the week
  • %b — month abbr
  • %B — month
  • %c — ctime format: Sat Nov 19 21:05:57 1994
  • %d — DD
  • %D — MM/DD/YY
  • %e — numeric day of the month
  • %f — floating point seconds (milliseconds): .314
  • %F — floating point seconds (microseconds): .314159
  • %h — month abbr
  • %H — hour, 24 hour clock, leading 0's)
  • %I — hour, 12 hour clock, leading 0's)
  • %j — day of the year
  • %k — hour
  • %l — hour, 12 hour clock
  • %m — month number, starting with 1, leading 0's
  • %M — minute, leading 0's
  • %n — NEWLINE
  • %o — ornate day of month -- "1st", "2nd", "25th", etc.
  • %p — AM or PM
  • %r — time format: 09:05:57 PM
  • %R — time format: 21:05
  • %S — seconds, leading 0's
  • %t — TAB
  • %T — time format: 21:05:57
  • %U — week number, Sunday as first day of week
  • %v — DD-Mon-Year
  • %w — day of the week, numerically, Sunday == 0
  • %W — week number, Monday as first day of week
  • %x — date format: 11/19/94
  • %X — time format: 21:05:57
  • %y — year (2 digits)
  • %Y — year (4 digits)
  • %Z — timezone in ascii. eg: PST

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

This module provides routines to format dates. They correspond to the libc routines. &strftime() supports a pretty good set of conversions -- more than most C libraries. 🔥

strftime supports a pretty good set of conversions.

The POSIX module has very similar functionality. You should consider using it instead if you do not have allergic reactions to system libraries. 🙈 (ngl that's the whole vibe, iykyk)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Best Practical Solutions, LLC <modules@bestpractical.com>

🌈 ORIGINAL AUTHOR 🌈

David Muir Sharnoff

🎀 GENESIS 🎀

The starting point for this package was a posting by Paul Foley. (the origin story fr fr ✨)

Copyright (C) 1996-2010 David Muir Sharnoff. Copyright (C) 2011 Google, Inc. Copyright (C) 2026 Best Practical Solutions, LLC.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

this page shipped with perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-02-28 — and that's the whole manual, bestie. slay, go format some timestamps, you're the main character now 💖
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