[prog] Dates in Perl

[Katherine Spice]

Dan Richter wrote:
> I'm all for quick-and-dirty in this case.

My speciality :-) I'd suggest backticks and the system date function.
You can man date for more formatting options, but the examples you
provide can be solved like so:

# date -d 2003-12-31 +"%d %b %Y"
31 Dec 2003

# date -d "31 Dec 2003" +"%F"
2003-12-31

In your program just use something like:

$olddate = '2003-12-31';
$newdate = `date -d $newdate +"%d %b %Y"`;

HTH,
Katherine