ehdonon ++ this is by far the easiest solution, and worth spelling out so that it doesn't get lost in the subsequent controversy 
use Date::Parse;
my @dates = qw[ 02/03/08 02/04/02 3:00pm 4:00am ];
my @sorted = sort {str2time($a) <=> str2time($b)} @dates;
print $_,"\n" for @sorted;
__END__
02/04/02
4:00am
3:00pm
02/03/08

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- n.b. times are assumed to be *today* unless date is specified. This will handle a variety of different date / time formats.

§ George Sherston

In reply to Re: Re: Date comparison by George_Sherston
in thread Date comparison by bengmau

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