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in reply to WWW::Mechanize wrong month

Perl Month numbers from 'localtime' etc are ZERO based.

This syntax:

($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday) = POSIX::strpti +me(string, format);
returns values similar to localtime(), which uses zero-based months.

$mday is the day of the month and $mon the month in the range 0..11, with 0 indicating January and 11 indicating December. This makes it easy to get a month name from a list:

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