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#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use Date::Manip;

my $old_date = 'Wednesday, May 20, 2009 2:09 PM';
my $new_date = UnixDate( $old_date, '%Y-%m-%d');

print $new_date;

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Re^2: Date String Conversion
by Lunitech (Initiate) on Jul 28, 2009 at 15:46 UTC
    My date is a "text" string and I need to split up and rearrange if need be, to get the 9 element array returned by localtime. My ultimate goal is finding out the "Day of Year" or yearday(yday) of this timestamp.
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