Yea, I love Date::Parse and Date::Format too. I use Date::Parse for most of my CGI applications when asking for a date. Why restrict the user to a single date format when you can easily bow to their comfort?

Well... OK, there are times when you really need/want to force a user to enter a date in a certain format, but for most of my stuff, it doesn't matter. All I care about is epoch time.

-ted