Questions: 1. How do you take a date in the form 'Month YYYY' and
convert it to the form 'YYYY-MM-DD'?
(I am assuming that DD will be 00 since I do not have any days to convert)
Example: March 1990 => 1990-03-00

2. How do you reverse the process, and convert
from'YYYY-MM-DD' to 'Month YYYY'?
Example: 1990-03-00 => March 1990

Background: I am using the CueCat sample code from Brent Michalski
(moderator of the Perl channel for Dr. Dobb's Online) to catalog my book collection.
The code is located at: Roll Your Own Data Capture

This code in and of itself works just fine, but I want to modify the code to reformat the date
into the format expected by MySql, so I can store the data in the table with a DATE datatype,
instead of VARCHAR, as I am using now. (I want to be able to sort each author's work in
chronological order, so Book 1 of a trilogy will show up before Book 2, etc)

I am assuming that since the code already parses out the date and puts it into a variable,
I just need to write a subroutine that will reformat this value. I just don't know what
Regular Expression or function to use to do the conversion. I've looked at Date::Ordinal,
which looks like what I need, but I don't understand how to use it.

In reply to How do you format dates for entry into MySql? by glamring

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