nick@vagrant$ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -ML -E' say DateTime::Format::Strptime->new(pattern => "%F %T", time_zone => "local")-> parse_datetime("2008-11-03 19:03:44")-> strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %T %Z"); ' Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:03:44 EST