One simple way is you can just change your SQL so that instead of selecting creation_date you select 

TO_CHAR('mm/dd/yyyy', creation_date) as creation_date

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Another way would be to default the display of all DATE columns in a particular format. You can use the TYPE statement handle attribute as documented in DBI and if the value matches SQL_DATE or SQL_DATETIME you can then have a special condition to format the data from that column accordingly (which could be a simple regexp-replace since you already know the format the DBI is going to use by default). Note: I've never done this in Perl but I've done the equivalent in Java (using ResultSetMetaData) and it works pretty well.

Regarding your question, I agree with Zed_Lopez that your level of detail was just right, except that you forgot to say what you wanted the output to be instead of what it is now.

In reply to Re: Handling MS-Access date time by Errto
in thread Handling MS-Access date time by k_rajesh

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