I'm working with SQL, and I need to get the date I parsed a given into a yyyy-mm-dd format into the database. I can get the date into the format I wish using the following subroutine (snipped from my code). Unfortunately, the month seems to be off by one. If I parse a file on February 13, 2001, It gets returned as "2001-01-13" which would be incorrect. I checked my system time, and everything is okay. Does anyone have any ideas of what I missed? 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
my $date_parsed = get_date();
print "Date Parsed: $date_parsed\n";

# gets parse-time date for release date

sub get_date {
   my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtim
+e(time);

   $year += 1900;
   ($mon, $mday) = (sprintf('%02d', $mon), sprintf('%02d', $mday));
  
   return $year."-".$mon."-".$mday;
};

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As I said, the script returns "2001-01-13" if I ran the script on February 13th. I guess I could always add one to the month -- but I want to make sure it isn't something I did wrong otherwise.

--Coplan

In reply to month off by one? by Coplan

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