How to parse a string into a DateTime object in Perl?

Question

I know about the DateTime Perl module, and many of the DateTime::Format:: modules to parse specific kinds of date/time formats. However given some examples of d

Answer 1

I tend to use Time::Piece simply because it's part of the standard Perl module set since version 5.10.

You can't beat it's ability to parse date strings.

my $time = Time::Piece->strptime(
      "October 28, 2011 9:00 PM PDT",
      "%B %d, %Y %r %Z");