Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

Name

gmctime

Synopsis

$gmc = gmctime(  )

Overrides the core gmtime function in scalar context; returns a string with the date and time:

use Time::gmtime;
$gmc = gmctime(  );
print $gmc;

Then the output of the print command looks like:

Thu Apr 9 18:15:06 1998