Banging my head against the wall time

I have a PERL script that runs fine when I manually start it in a Mintty emulator window, but I want it to run from a Windows Scheduled Task

Manually in Minnty I start the script with

perl inventory.pl

My scheduled task action is

D:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe d:/perl_scripts/Inventory.pl

But this comes back with the error

Can't exec "date": No such file or directory at d:/perl_scripts/inventory.pl line 71.

The rest of the script seems to run fine. Line 71 of the code is

my $date=`date +%d%m%Y`;

why is this one line causing me problems

In reply to CYGWIN Perl and Mintty by chrisayres11

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