hullo. I have a little perl script that gets the day from a MYSQL DATETIME. It looks like this. 
 use Date::Day;

## The following will print the weekday corresponding 
                                                    

my $fragment = '2010-03-23 17:00:00';
$fragment =  substr $fragment,  0, 10;
my ( $year, $month, $day ) = split /-/, $fragment;
$fragment  = &day($month,$day,$year);
$fragment = $fragment." $day-$month";
print "$fragment";

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It works perfectly as expected. My problem is when i try to reuse it within a set of perl modules to write the day to a HTML file, it fails. the relevant section of code looks like this: 
use Date::Day;

...

my $fragment;
if ($table =~ m/daily/) 
    {$fragment =  substr $ref->{'time'},  0, 10;
    my ( $year, $month, $day ) = split /-/, $fragment;
    $fragment  = &day($month,$day,$year);
    $fragment = $fragment." $day-$month";
    } 
                                                                      
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else {$fragment =  substr $ref->{'time'}, 11, 5;}                     
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#write times to micro HTML
   printf MICROHTML '<td class="time">';
   printf MICROHTML "$fragment";
   printf MICROHTML '</td>';}

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the $ref{'time'} is a variable used to store the MYSQL DATETIME and i know this is 100% working as i can dump out date info to HTML no problem, its when trying to use the Day method from Date::Day that i get a problem. The code is 'live' and runs on everyday at 5pm on a scheduled task so its hard for me to thouroghly debug the issue. I have been trying suss out what is wrong for a while now but cant put my finger on it. Can anyone help?
conal.

In reply to Date::Day issues by Conal

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