I'm running the CPAN module interactively to install Date::Simple. The latest version is 2.04, shown here:

http://search.cpan.org/author/JTOBEY/Date-Simple-2.04/lib/Date/Simple.pm
and that's the one I want. But CPAN is getting version 1.03 for me, from here:

ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/K/KA/KASEI

Why?

I can't even figure out how to point CPAN at a local mirror, let alone see which version is on a particular server. Seen some mention of a urlist in the CPAN docs, but no mention of how to change it.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers,

Eliot.

In reply to cpan gets old version of module by Anonymous Monk

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