[ale] using Time::localtime in perl

[z.yu at ptek.com (Jerry Z. Yu)]

	localtime will return an array, unless you cast it to a string by
'scalar' operator or implicitly uses it in a scalar environment.
	'man perlfunc' will tell you all.

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, David S. Jackson wrote:

#I'm getting an mtime and an atime value from a stat command.  I
#believe this comes back in Epoch format, right?
#
#So when I go
#
#	my $info = stat("pathto/file");
#	my $access = $info->atime;
#	my $created = $info->mtime;
#
#	my $realaccess = localtime($access);
#	my $realcreate = localtime($created);
#
#why do $realaccess and $realcreate get values like
#
# 	Time::tm=ARRAY(0x81b1a78)?
#
#TIA!
#
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