# 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(time);
All array elements are numeric, and come straight out of a struct tm. In
particular this means that
$mon has the range 0..11 and
$wday has the range 0..6 with sunday as day 0. Also,
$year is the number of years since 1900, that is,
$year is 123 in year 2023.
If EXPR is omitted, uses the current time (localtime(time)).
In a scalar context, returns the
$now_string = localtime; # e.g., "Thu Oct 13 04:54:34 1994"
This scalar value is not locale dependent, see the perllocale manpage, but instead a Perl builtin. Also see the Time::Local module, and the
mktime(3) function available via the