Check out the Basic Usage section of the DateTime FAQ. The "How can I get a string representing a date?" section likely shows you everything you need.
http://datetime.perl.org/index.cgi?FAQBasicUsage Bobby -----Original Message----- From: Brian Hirt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Question about printing month/day Hello, I'm trying to find a way to print a month name and the day of the month for a selected locale without the year. I can't seem to find anyway to do this correctly. Essentially what i want is something like $date->strftime($locale->long_date_format) excluding the year. Is this possible? I'm looking through the defined format strings in the locale files and have come to the conclusion that this isn't possible unless I want to maintain a separate list of format strings for each locale in my own code. However, this seems like such a common thing to do, I'm sure I must be missing something. Hopefully I'm missing the obvious. Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks, Brian
