Time Piece Error Parsing

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

Hi there Monks!

I am getting an error I cant understand, here:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;
use Time::Piece;

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

my $date = $t->strptime(sprintf("%02d",$t->mon).$t->day_of_month.$t->y
+ear, '%m%d%Y');

print"\n $date\n";
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Error: Error parsing time at /usr/lib/perl/5.18/Time/Piece.pm

Any suggestions, I know it has to do with the "$t->year" part, just dont know how to get it to work.

Thanks for helping!

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Re: Time Piece Error Parsing by runrig (Abbot) on Mar 09, 2016 at 16:42 UTC
Today is the 9th. If you're going to mash digits together without delimiters, the month AND the day of month each need to be 2 digits.	[reply]
Re^2: Time Piece Error Parsing by Anonymous Monk on Mar 09, 2016 at 18:07 UTC
Interesting, so this should work even if the month has two digits.: `$date = $t->strptime(sprintf("%02d",$t->mon).sprintf("%02d",$t->day_of +_month).$t->year, '%m%d%Y');` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Time Piece Error Parsing by runrig (Abbot) on Apr 15, 2016 at 15:58 UTC
Alternatively: `$date = $t->strptime(sprintf("%02d%02d%04d",$t->mon,$t->day_of_month,$ +t->year), '%m%d%Y');` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Time Piece Error Parsing by poj (Abbot) on Mar 09, 2016 at 17:03 UTC
Why strptime ? Try using strftime `my $date = $t->strftime('%m%d%Y');`	[reply] [d/l]