Hey tony!

Feb 27 15:40 05, tony summerfelt wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 ts> not under win2k sp2 using activestate's perl v5.8.0

 ts> mine gives me:  ! 27 Feb 15:40:08 -- this is a test

 ts> using %X gives me: ! 03:39:36 PM -- this is a test

 ts> which is not a max style log...might be different under  linux, which 
 ts> probably has a standard posix header. i'm assuming it's the windows 
 ts> one that deviates from the standard...

Certainly looks that way.  I suppose the %H:%M:%S call would be the way to
go if portability is the goal.  How about "gmtime" as opposed to
"localtime"?  Will activestate's perl make the needed
adjustments?

Life is good,
Maurice

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