Re: [MacPerl] Munging dates

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 09.42 98.01.12, Jon Warbrick wrote:
>  Date::Parse from a group of routines by Graham Barr. Appears to
>  work OK, but can only handle American style dates (1/2/1998 is
>  2nd January rather than 1st February) which is a problem for me.

Why not munge the date yourself into an American style, and then pass it?

$x = '1/2/1998';
$x = join('/', @{[split(/\//, $x)]}[1,0,2]);
print $x;

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