in reply to date parsing

The data of 01/09/2024 (ie the next calendar day) gives gibberish - with the day coming out as 09 instead of 1, month as 01 instead of 9 and the year as 124.

It's not gibberish; it just guessed incorrectly about the order of the day and month. Instead of using a parser that guesses at the format, use one that where you can specify the format.

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Re^2: date parsing
by SBECK (Chaplain) on Jun 23, 2025 at 15:03 UTC
    In order to interpret 01/09 as DD/MM instead of MM/DD using Date::Manip (not Date::Parse), just add the line (near the start): 
       Date_Init("DateFormat=non-US");

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