# On Thu, Feb 24/05 at 07:56 AM, Maurice Kinal wrote to tony summerfelt:

 ts>>     $stime= strftime("%d %b %H:%M:%S -- ", localtime(time));

 MK> That is neat.  The "%H:%M:%S" can be shortened to
"%X" which produces
 MK> the exact same thing.

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

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

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

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

.t

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