Good day bros. The following snippet: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Date::Manip;
use HTML::TreeBuilder;
my $htm = '     <html><div class="posthead">
            <span class="postdate new"><span class="date">14th
            August 2017,&nbsp;<span class=
            "time">21:07</span></span></span> <span class=
            "nodecontrols"><a name="post27949278" href=
            "threads/2360460-product-reviews.htm"
            class="postcounter">#1937</a></span>
          </div></html>';
my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_content($htm);
my $postdate = $tree->look_down('class','date')->as_text();
print "postdate: $postdate\n";
print "postdate parsed: ",ParseDate($postdate),"\n";
my $timestamp = '14th August 2017, 21:07';
print "string parsed: ",ParseDate($timestamp),"\n";

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yields output:
postdate: 14th August 2017, 21:07
postdate parsed: 
string parsed: 2017081421:07:00

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So it fails to parse a date when it's passed to ParseDate as the contents of a variable gotten with HTML::Element, but if I take the exact same text, assign it to a variable as a string literal, and pass it to ParseDate, it parses fine. I've debugged into Date::Manip and it seems to be getting the same string in both cases. Anyone know what's going on here?!?

In reply to Weird Date::Manip DateParse fail by cormanaz

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