20231024.020045

Ah, I see you're a person of culture as well! To be sure, is that date-time in "YYYYMMDD.HMnS" (see Date::Manip::Date) or "%Y%m%d.%H%M%S" format? If not, rest of it is useless.

I did not find in Date::Manip::Date documentation anything matching your example. OTOH 20231024 is parsed to date of Oct 24, 2023 as expected.

I also did not see a way, perhaps missed, to convert the return value of Date::Manip::Date->parse_format( q[%Y%m%D\.%H%M%S], q[20231024.020045] ) into Date::Manip::Obj. 

# date-manip.pl

use strict;
use warnings;
use feature qw[ signatures ];

use Data::Dumper qw[ Dumper ];
use Date::Manip::Date;

my @date_maybe = ( q[20231024.020045], q[20231024] );

for my $input ( @date_maybe )
{
   my $parsed = Date::Manip::Date->new( $input );
   show( $input, $parsed );
}

my $parser = Date::Manip::Date->new();
my ( $err, %matched ) = $parser->parse_format( q[%Y%m%d\.%H%M%S], $dat
+e_maybe[0] );
print Dumper( [ $err, \%matched ] );

exit;


sub show( $input, $parsed )
{
   if ( my $err = $parsed->err() )
   {
      warn qq[Error during parsing $input: $err\n];
   }
   my $cooked = $parsed->value();
   print qq[$input was parsed to $cooked\n];
   # Too long of a dump.
   #print Dumper( $parsed );
}

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perl5.34.1 date-manip.pl
The signatures feature is experimental at date-manip.pl line 26.
20231024.020045 was parsed to 2024062217:53:11
20231024 was parsed to 2023102400:00:00
$VAR1 = [
          0,
          {
            'y' => '2023',
            's' => '45',
            'mn' => '00',
            'h' => '02',
            'm' => '10',
            'd' => '24'
          }
        ];

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In reply to Re: Date::Manip returns wrong value by Anonymous Monk
in thread Date::Manip returns wrong value by expo1967

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