I'm trying to parse and reformat date strings which look like this on input: 

11 Mär 08 22:54 CET

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The formats may vary slightly, but they all have in common that months are in German.  Date::Manip generally does support parsing dates in several languages, and although this generally works fine, there seems to be a problem with the month "Mär" (March).

Here's some demo code: 

use Date::Manip;

Date_Init("Language=German", "DateFormat=non-US", "TZ=UTC");

for my $date_in (
                 "11 Jan 08 22:54 CET",
                 "11 Mär 08 22:54 CET",
                 "11 Mai 08 22:54 CEST",
                 "11 Okt 08 22:54 CEST",
                 "11 Dez 08 22:54 CET",
                ) {
    
    my $date_out = UnixDate( ParseDate($date_in), "%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S" 
+);

    printf "%-20s --> %s\n", $date_in, $date_out;
}

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The output: 

11 Jan 08 22:54 CET  --> 2008-01-11_21:54:00
11 Mär 08 22:54 CET  --> 
11 Mai 08 22:54 CEST --> 2008-05-11_20:54:00
11 Okt 08 22:54 CEST --> 2008-10-11_20:54:00
11 Dez 08 22:54 CET  --> 2008-12-11_21:54:00

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The expected output for 11 Mär 08 22:54 CET would be 2008-03-11_21:54:00

Suspecting some encoding issue, I also tried to supply the input as Unicode (UTF-8) instead of ISO Latin-1. Same result. (Taking a look at the source suggests the module isn't using Unicode. But just in case.)

So what am I doing wrong?

(I'm using Date:Manip v5.54, as currently available from CPAN.)

In reply to Date::Manip and German months names by almut

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