Hey everybody...

I have not yet done any significant date manipulation in Perl, so the question I came across today has left me a bit at a loss... I have a script which spits out an XML document created on-the-fly from a database. The database stores dates as days-since-the-epoch, for instance today would be 11352 ... it's basically like this at the time it's stored in the database:
  $date = time() / 60 / 60 / 24;

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...and I have no control over that portion. So my question is this: What is the best way to convert this back to a conventional format, such as 2000/01/30 ? Is there a particularly well-suited module?

Thanks,

Hot Pastrami

In reply to Date Conversion by Hot Pastrami

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