Hi Monks, newbie to Perl and have a little bit of a problem, but should be quite simple to work out for someone more experienced. I have a small script to work out the date last month and the year last month that looks like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use DateTime;

$dt = DateTime->now();
$month = $dt->subtract(months => 1)->strftime("%m");
$year = $dt->subtract(months => 1)->year();

print $dt."\n";

print $month."\n";

print $year."\n";

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System date at time of writing is: Tue Feb 7 14:47:55 GMT 2012 which should give me a month of 01, and a year of 2012 right? So why is the output: 2011-12-07T14:47:55 01 2011 :(

In reply to Datetime Problem - Wrong Time by solarisfire

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