How can it? You lose information. That strings contains nothing else that would indicate whether the times are AM or PM. Date::Manip is probably assuming 24-hour-time, effectively assuming AM for all times.

Did you actually test your assumption or are you simply programming by coincidence?

$ perl -MDate::Manip -le'print UnixDate "Wed, 28 Jul 2004 9:12 PM", "%
+s"'
1091041920
$ perl -MDate::Manip -le'print UnixDate "Wed, 28 Jul 2004 9:12", "%s"'
1090998720

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You didn't notice that, because you're not asking for the time, only for the date. Are you sure you will never want to see the time, in a future change to the script? Will you remember this idiosyncracy of your solution at the time? You should at least document this issue in your script; the better approach would of course be to either strip the entire time out of the string completely (Date::Manip will assume 12AM sharp) or not to destroy this information in the first place.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re^3: Regexp Epiphany by Aristotle
in thread Regex Epiphany by Sigmund

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