in reply to dates-unix <==> mm/dd/yyyy
The above are excellent suggestions. I prefer Date::Manip myself. It is a larger module, but it is also very well documented. I use the perldoc on it instead of the man pages for date to figure things out in Unix, just because it is so detailed. It will solve all of your date manipulation needs ... well most all of them anyway ;-)
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