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in reply to Not able to find dateTime value using sql

The entire problem here (seems to me at first glance to be) a matter of, first, getting the executed command to generate the full datetime value as a string; and, second, interpreting that string.   All of which ceases to be a problem when you approach the task using DBI.   Now, you can obtain the value directly, i.e. in binary form.   And you’re not executing any shell-command to do it, which can very quickly become prohibitive, say in a loop.   So, to me, this logic as-conceived definitely should be abandoned, not patched.