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>So, using whatever language you want, php, python, perl, javascript, program something that gets today's date and time, then writes it to a file.

Me:

$ date > today.txt

This cracked me up. :)

Good response to a good question. Next step is the interviewer saying "...in a 12 hour clock", "...in ISO8601 format", "...in France", etc.

In fact, you could probably do an 6 hour interview just asking time and date questions and it would probably find you decent candidates.

(Or i18n/l10n questions, if you're especially cruel.)