What you are seeing is a reference to a "Win32::OLE::Variant" object (not a hash). The quick solution is to use Win32::OLE::Variant; and your variant value will just print, using a default format.

Use print $variant->Date('yyyy-MM-dd'); to format it however you'd like.

Add use Win32::OLE::NLS qw/:LOCALE :DATE/; and you can use any system formats, ie print $variant->Date(DATE_LONGDATE) will print something like "Thursday, December 19, 2002" - depending on the locale settings in Windows. If you need the time to print as well, import :TIME from the NLS module.

This is documented in ActiveState's help file (or perldoc Win32::OLE::Variant, if you prefer)

In reply to Re: ADO Date Problems by jsprat
in thread ADO Date Problems by Anonymous Monk

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