NAME

gmtime - convert UNIX time into record or string using Greenwich time

SYNOPSIS

gmtime EXPR

DESCRIPTION

Converts a time as returned by the time function to a 9-element array with the time localized for the standard Greenwich time zone. Typically used as follows:

    ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) =
					    gmtime(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. Also, $year is the number of years since 1900, not simply the last two digits of the year.

If EXPR is omitted, does gmtime(time).

In a scalar context, prints out the ctime value:

    $now_string = gmtime;  # e.g., "Thu Oct 13 04:54:34 1994"

Also see the timegm.pl library, and the strftime function available via the POSIX module.