Hello Monks, I have a problem formatting my dates with DateTime module. This code:

use DateTime;
use Date::Format;


my $one_month_ago = DateTime->today->subtract(months => 1);
print $one_month_ago = DateTime->last_day_of_month(
   month => $one_month_ago->month,
    year  => $one_month_ago->year,
)->strftime("%m%d%y");



my $start_date = DateTime->today->subtract( months => 1);
print $start_date->strftime("%m%d%y");
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returns the date in the formats that I want. (MMDDYY)
This code that I have with mechanize entering the information in fields on a website, however, gives me the start date as MMDDYYT00:00:00.

my $start_date = DateTime->today->subtract( months => 1);
$start_date->strftime("%m%d%y");
print $start_date;
my $end_date = DateTime->today->subtract(months => 1);
$end_date = DateTime->last_day_of_month(
    month => $end_date->month,
    year  => $end_date->year,
 )->strftime("%m%d%y");
print $end_date;



#This block of code is intended to fill in the required forms
$mech->get("https://caps.usps.gov/ssl_caps/caps_ai.asp");
my $usr = "asdf";
my $pw = "asdf";
$mech->form_number(1);
$mech->field( "capsn", $usr);
$mech->form_number(2);
$mech->field("capsp", $pw);
$mech->form_number(3);
$mech->field( "startdate", $start_date);
$mech->form_number(4);
$mech->field( "enddate", $end_date);
$mech->form_number(5);
$mech->select("format", "2");
$mech->click();
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Why is this happening? Thanks in advance for your input..

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