Ok I figured out that I was using %G (The year corresponding to the ISO week number) instead of %Y. But I still thinks this is weird that the format instance is not able to parse what it just has formatted.
Thanks On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Karl Forner <karl.for...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Consider this code : > > > my $formatter > = DateTime::Format::Strptime->new( pattern => "%d-%b-%G", on_error > => 'croak' ); > my $date = DateTime->now(); > my $formatted = $formatter->format_datetime($date); > warn "formatted=$formatted"; # output e.g. 27-May-2009 > my $parsed_date = $formatter->parse_datetime($formatted); > > > => got > There is no use providing a month name (May) without providing a year. at > bug_datetime.pl line 8 > > So the formatting is ok, but the parsing fails, with an incorrect message. > > It seems to be a bug, but maybe I missed something. It's problematic > because I reallny need to parse these types of dates (27-May-2009). > > > > P.S > $DateTime::Format::Strptime::VERSION = '1.0901'; >
