#!perl use v5.14; use strict; use warnings; use DateTime; use DateTime::Format::CLDR; my $parser = DateTime::Format::CLDR->new( pattern => 'yyyyMMdd HH:mm:ss', on_error => 'croak', ); my $format = 'M/d/y h:mm:ss a'; while (my $timestamp = ) { chomp $timestamp; $timestamp = $parser->parse_datetime($timestamp) ->format_cldr($format); say $timestamp; } exit 0; __DATA__ 20040805 18:31:00 20050106 10:54:27 20050302 01:23:35 20100808 20:00:16 20110501 18:09:44 20110909 20:02:42 20130408 18:09:03