my (
        $dev,  $ino,   $mode,  $nlink, $uid,     $gid, $rdev,
        $size, $atime, $mtime, $ctime, $blksize, $blocks
    ) = stat($file);

    my ( $sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday, $isdst )
+ =
      localtime($mtime);

    # make a MySQL compatible date
    my $mysqlDate = strftime(
        "%F %T", $sec,  $min,  $hour, $mday,
        $mon,    $year, $wday, $yday, $isdst
    );

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Try replacing this code with acquiring of the date you parsed from <data> tags ($j::date). You may need to parse and reformat the date, have a look at Date::Parse, localtime and strftime.
Sorry if my advice was wrong.

In reply to Re: Perl Newbie by aitap
in thread Perl Newbie by zeroc00l

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