Time::localtime(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Time::localtime(3pm)

# [NAME](#NAME)

Time::localtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in localtime() function

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

```
 use Time::localtime;
 printf "Year is %d\n", localtime->year() + 1900;
 $now = ctime();
 use Time::localtime;
 use File::stat;
 $date_string = ctime(stat($file)->mtime);
```

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

This module's default exports override the core **localtime()** function, replacing it with a version that returns "Time::tm" objects. This object has methods that return the similarly named structure field name from the C's tm structure from *time.h*; namely sec, min, hour, mday, mon, year, wday, yday, and isdst.

You may also import all the structure fields directly into your namespace as regular variables using the :FIELDS import tag. (Note that this still overrides your core functions.) Access these fields as variables named with a preceding "tm\_" in front their method names. Thus, "$tm\_obj->mday()" corresponds to $tm\_mday if you import the fields.

The **ctime()** function provides a way of getting at the scalar sense of the original **CORE::localtime()** function.

To access this functionality without the core overrides, pass the "use" an empty import list, and then access function functions with their full qualified names. On the other hand, the built-ins are still available via the "CORE::" pseudo-package.

# [NOTE](#NOTE)

While this class is currently implemented using the Class::Struct module to build a struct-like class, you shouldn't rely upon this.

# [AUTHOR](#AUTHOR)

Tom Christiansen

2026-08-31 perl v5.44.0

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Document: Time::localtime(3pm) from perl 5.44.0-r1 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/Perl/perl5.git