ctime

Canonical English timestamp string for an epoch time, in local time.

Synopsis

use POSIX qw(ctime);
print ctime(time);   # "Wed Apr 22 14:30:00 2026\n"

What you get back

A 25-byte string including the trailing newline, or undef on conversion failure.

Differences from upstream

Fully compatible with upstream POSIX. The trailing newline is preserved.

See also

• asctime — same formatting, but from a broken-down time list.