On 07/26/2013 06:10 AM, Charles DeRykus wrote:
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Michael Brader
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
[...]
There are at least 2 modules that can definitely do the job for you,
Date::Manip::Date and DateTime (with DateTime::Format::Natural). I
usually use the latter, but since you want the former:
Have a look at the documentation for Date::Manip::Date and look for
parse_format and printf
Date::Manip and friends are wonderfully versatile but with even in this
simple case, it does start to get a bit twisty with special parse and
output methods:
[...]
Agreed, that's why I tend to stick with DateTime these days.
Cheers,
Michael
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