Just for reference, is the xml date format I mentioned able to be identified and re-formatted using Date::Format or another perl module?

Never used Date::Format before, but a minute of looking shows its should be able to handle it without any problem

#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict; use warnings;
use Date::Format();
use Date::Parse();
use feature qw/ say /;
my @t  = Date::Parse::strptime( q/2012-02-25T18:48:34.835-05:00/);
say Date::Format::strftime(
    q/%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S/,
    @t,
);
__END__
2012-02-25 18:48:34
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