Assuming this is homework and you really want to surprise your teacher:
use Modern::Perl;
use Date::Parse;
use DateTime;
while (<DATA>) {
my $dt = DateTime->from_epoch( epoch => str2time($_, '+0000'));
say join ' ', $dt->month_name(), $dt->day(), $dt->year();
}
__DATA__
December 14th 2012
December 21st 2012
December 22nd 2012
Output:
December 14 2012
December 21 2012
December 22 2012
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A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James
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