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'2004-9-1' lt '2004-10-1' '2004/09/01' lt '2004-09-01'
sub normalize_date { return join( '', map { sprintf( '%02i', $_ ) } sp +lit (/\D+/, $_[0]) ) } sub compare_dates { return normalize_date($_[0]) cmp normalize_date($_ +[1]) }