#!/usr/bin/perl use v5.10; use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use DateTime::Format::Strptime; $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys = 1; my $parser = DateTime::Format::Strptime->new(pattern => '%m/%d/%Y', on_error => 'croak'); my $date = '05/10/1969'; my $dt = $parser->parse_datetime($date); say $dt->ymd; say $dt->strftime('%Y-%m-%d');