You need to change the format of your date to that used by MySQL (YYYY-MM-DD) before calling your INSERT statement. You can do this with Date::Manip::UnixDate: 
$date= ParseDate("in 90 days");
$date= UnixDate( $date => '%Y-%m-%d' );
print "Date: $date\n"; # 2004-08-08

$rows=$dbh->do("INSERT INTO appCancel (appt_date,status, no_cancel, ci
+ty)
                        VALUES('$date'  , 'U'  , '0'      , 'M')") ||

                      die "Couldn't insert record : $DBI::errstr";

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See the section on UnixDate in the pod for Date::Manip.

--sacked

In reply to Re: Date::Manip Help by sacked
in thread Date::Manip Help by Agyeya

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