Yeah, that date frozen at 5/5/2005 does seem odd. I believe it is caused by the way you setup your callback on the Get button. In [] brackets, it assigns $date when first compiling, while you want it to evaluate $date at the time of the button press. It's a fine detail in Tk callbacks, and causes alot of confusion. You are not the first to get whacked :-) Try this: 
my $get_button
        = $mw->Button(
            -text=>'Get',
#          -command=>[\&ff_get, $date, $cd ],
      -command => sub{  ff_get($date,$cd)    }  

      )->pack();

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In reply to Re^5: Perl / Tk Calendar - advice please. by zentara
in thread Perl / Tk Calendar - advice please. by jdtoronto

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