in reply to Date conversion

There are probably seven such modules. You can predict the names of such modules picking various name elements from a fuzz table. Search CPAN. http://search.cpan.org/
Text Parse Time Date Format Date Time :: Date :: Parse Parse Time Format Format Text Text
I'm only half in jest.

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Re^2: Date conversion (long way)
by tye (Sage) on Mar 25, 2004 at 07:40 UTC

    Using a date module to do such a straight-forward reformatting?? That's a bit like converting your text from English to German and then back again in order to get rid of your dangling participles just because you have such a module and you know it can be told to not dangle when doing the German-to-English step.

    my %mon; @mon{qw/ jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sep oct nov dec /}= '01'..'12'; s#\w{3} (\w{3}) (\d+) ([\d:]+) (\d+)#$4-$mon{lc $1}-$2 $3#

    - tye