Re: date parsing

[ikegami]

The data of 01/09/2024 (ie the next calendar day) gives gibberish - with the day coming out as 09 instead of 1, month as 01 instead of 9 and the year as 124.

It's not gibberish; it just guessed incorrectly about the order of the day and month. Instead of using a parser that guesses at the format, use one that where you can specify the format.

[SBECK]

In order to interpret 01/09 as DD/MM instead of MM/DD using Date::Manip (not Date::Parse), just add the line (near the start):

   Date_Init("DateFormat=non-US");