See, now that you've given a concrete example to look at you can easily see that the page in question (after you accept their disclaimer thing and get back a session cookie . . .) has the full date text. The page contains a call to pull in a JavaScript file "common.js". Said "common.js" contains a function formatDate which looks to munge dates.

Given this it's not out of the realm of possibility that there's something calling javascript and munging all the dates. This easily explains the difference between what you see in your browser (even if you view source, you're seeing the source after it's been walked over) and what Mechanize is showing. You can easily confirm this by comparing the output from a third party (say curl and using the JSESSIONID cookie value pulled from your browser) which should match what Mechanize says it is.

The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.

In reply to Re^3: Weird date format behavior with WWW::Mechanize by Fletch
in thread Weird date format behavior with WWW::Mechanize by whakka

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