What operating system are you using? Support for the %P format code isn't universal. Take a look at the documentation for "strftime" on your system.

You could try using %p instead. Or, alternatively, just use the 24 hour clock (%k in place of %l in the output format string) - that's far more readable in my opinion.

Personally, I'd use the DateTime modules to solve this problem.

Ok, I got it to work, one more question For some reason I can run it from the shell but when I incorporate it into my script it crashes it. and only crashes it from a browser, what am I missing?

{ 
use Date::Parse;
use Date::Format;
use Date::Language;

 $format    = '%A, %B %o %l:%M%p';
 $language  = Date::Language->new('English');

## Start
 $date_time = '08/24/06 09:30';
 $time      = $language->str2time( $date_time );     # 1. Parse
 $newtime   = $language->time2str( $format, $time ); # 2. Output

{
print "$newtime\n";
}
}

Could be any number of things. It'll be brought about by the fact that your web server runs scripts under a different user, so the environment will be different.

What do you mean by "crashes"? Does it crash your browser? If you're seeing a 500 error then there will almost certainly be more useful information in the web server error log.

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