in reply to Re: Coolest way to decode YYYYMMDD?
in thread Coolest way to decode YYYYMMDD?

If DateTime is not a requirement, and short month names are ok (difficult to say with "May" as the only example), then I offer this:

printf('"%s %d,%d?"',substr(gmtime(34e6*('19830501'=~/(....)(..)(..)/) +[1]),4,3),$3,$1);