[prog] Dates in Perl

[Jacinta Richardson]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Dan Richter wrote:

> What's the easiest way to handle dates in Perl (e.g., convert between 
> "2003-12-31", "31 Dec 2003", and perhaps some internal representation that 
> you can perform operations on)?

There's Date::Manip.  That's pretty good.  Although a little... heavy
handed in some cases.

	Jacinta

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