Convert month number to month name

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks!

I have a date as "12-03-2014", I would like to convert it to:
"December 03, 2014".
I am getting an error like:
Error parsing time at /usr/lib64/perl5/Time/Piece.pm
Here is the code I am trying:

!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Time::Piece;
use Time::Seconds;

my $t = Time::Piece->new();

# Date 3 weeks from today's date
my $future_date  = $t + ONE_WEEK * 3;

my $n_date = $future_date->mdy;

my $converted_date = $t->strptime($n_date, '%B %d, $Y');

print " New Date = $n_date\n";

# December 03, 2014
print " Converted Date = $converted_date\n";
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Thank you!

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Re: Convert month number to month name by choroba (Cardinal) on Nov 12, 2014 at 15:04 UTC
You're almost there! You don't need to Parse a date, you need to Format it: You want to format the object, i.e. $future_date. `my $converted_date = $t->strftime($future_date, '%B %d, %Y');` [download] Update: Fixed `$Y -> %Y`. Thanks toolic. لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Convert month number to month name by toolic (Bishop) on Nov 12, 2014 at 15:13 UTC
Putting it all together, using choroba's advice, and fixing the format error (use %Y, not $Y): `use warnings; use strict; use Time::Piece qw(); use Time::Seconds qw(ONE_WEEK); my $t = Time::Piece->new(); my $future_date = $t + ONE_WEEK * 3; my $converted_date = $future_date->strftime('%B %d, %Y'); print "Converted Date = $converted_date\n"; __END__ Converted Date = December 03, 2014` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Convert month number to month name by Anonymous Monk on Nov 12, 2014 at 15:18 UTC
Thank you, that explains, awesome!	[reply]