Hello again eniad,

Well a simple example would answer your question:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Date::Manip;
use feature 'say';

my @dates = ( "2018-02-20 00:00:00",
          "20180220",
          "02/20/2018",
          "02/20/18",    # interpreted as 1918-02-20
          "2018-02-20",
          "today");

say UnixDate( ParseDate($_), "%Y-%m-%d") for (@dates);

__END__

$ perl test.pl
2018-02-20
2018-02-20
2018-02-20
2018-02-20
2018-02-20
2018-02-20
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So in conclusion, yes the module can parse all the dates that you provided.

Update: If you want to know which date formats are acceptable from the module read here Date::Manip::Date/VALID DATE FORMATS. On the same link you will find time formats but also date and time formats combined.

Update 2: A minor similar example on how to parse time and print also time zone if you are interested:

Hope this helps, BR.

It even correctly handles the 2-digit year example. Nice!

I'll take a deeper dive into Date::Manip. Thanks for the example.

Date::Manip greatly simplified the parsing of the datetimes. See Solution 2 in my answer. Thanks for the help!