Dear Monks,

I am trying to use Date::Manip to deal with various date
formats.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Date::Manip;

if ( !defined($ENV{'TZ'}) ) { 
    print "Tz not set!\n";
    $ENV{'TZ'} = "-0800"; 
}        
my $time_zone = $ENV{'TZ'};
my @strings = ( 
    "1999/12/12", 
    "02-03-01", 
    "10-13-97", 
    "2001-11-28" 
);

foreach $string ( @strings ) {
    my $date = &ParseDate( \$string );
    print "string is $string date is $date \n";
}

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And here's the output
Tz not set!
string is 1999/12/12 date is 1999121200:00:00 
string is 02-03-01 date is 2002030100:00:00 
string is 10-13-97 date is  
string is 2001-11-28 date is 2001112800:00:00

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Here's my questions:
1) why didn't Date::Manip read my mind and know that 02-03-01
should be "the thrid of February 2001"

2) what's wrong with 10-13-97 in the USA it should be
"the thirteenth of October 1997".

In reply to Date::Manip question. by rbc

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