To the anonymous Texan that thought it would be a good idea to point out a Perl module in response to my date parsing class in Java:

I'm well aware of date parsing modules in other languages. In fact I've used them for similar tasks. But the post wasn't asking "How do I parse dates in Perl?" It was giving some code that some people might find useful.

Commenting with "man Date::Parse" doesn't make you look clever; it just makes you look like a twat and the kind of person people are relucant to invite to parties. You may be a geek and you may know stuff, but that doesn't mean you have to try to look clever, because you will invariably fail.

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Oh and Erich, I've got some more date formats I want to add support for, so I'll add german dates and post the updated code. :)