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in reply to Re: Date::Parse - how to correctly parse dates between 1901 and 1969
in thread Date::Parse - how to correctly parse dates between 1901 and 1969

This explains my difficulty. Thank you. Now that I understand where the `$year - 1900` is happening, I can figure out how to reliably parse then format the input date. I will post my updated code.