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Easy way to convert epoch seconds to human readable date in Perl

Easiest way:
print scalar localtime(946684800);
Prints:
Sat Jan  1 00:00:00 2000

Next easiest, more flexible:
require POSIX; print POSIX::strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", localtime((946684800)));
Prints:
2000-01-01 00:00:00