This involves manual string parsing, which half-defeats the purpose of relying on the module to do it for you... also, this is not a february-specific "feature" of Time::Piece:

[davidrw@host ~]$ perl -MTime::Piece -le 'print Time::Piece->strptime(
+"31-06-2006", "%d-%m-%Y")'
Sat Jul  1 00:00:00 2006
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