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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Date/Time help Post 97191 by cbkihong on Friday 27th of January 2006 02:40:03 AM
Old 01-27-2006
Another possibility: download the Time::Format module from search.cpan.org. It has a flexible date time formatting language that should address most if not all formatting requirements.

Documentation:
http://search.cpan.org/~roode/Time-F...1.02/Format.pm
 

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DateTime::Format::Builder::Parser::Strptime(3pm)	User Contributed Perl Documentation	  DateTime::Format::Builder::Parser::Strptime(3pm)

NAME
DateTime::Format::Builder::Parser::Strptime - strptime based date parsing SYNOPSIS
my $parser = DateTime::Format::Builder->create_parser( strptime => '%e/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z', ); SPECIFICATION
o strptime takes as its argument a strptime string. See DateTime::Format::Strptime for more information on valid patterns. THANKS
See the main module's section. SUPPORT
Support for this module is provided via the datetime@perl.org email list. See http://lists.perl.org/ for more details. Alternatively, log them via the CPAN RT system via the web or email: http://perl.dellah.org/rt/dtbuilder bug-datetime-format-builder@rt.cpan.org This makes it much easier for me to track things and thus means your problem is less likely to be neglected. LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT
Copyright X Iain Truskett, 2003. All rights reserved. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.000 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available. The full text of the licences can be found in the Artistic and COPYING files included with this module, or in perlartistic and perlgpl as supplied with Perl 5.8.1 and later. AUTHOR
Iain Truskett <spoon@cpan.org> SEE ALSO
"datetime@perl.org" mailing list. http://datetime.perl.org/ perl, DateTime, DateTime::Format::Builder perl v5.10.1 2010-03-14 DateTime::Format::Builder::Parser::Strptime(3pm)
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