#!/usr/bin/perl

use v5.10;
use strict;
use warnings;

use Data::Dumper;
use DateTime::Format::Strptime;
use Time::Piece;

$Data::Dumper::Sortkeys = 1;

my $date = '05/10/1969';
my $ymd = '%Y-%m-%d';
my $mdy = '%m/%d/%Y';

my $t = Time::Piece->strptime($date,$mdy);

say $t->ymd; # Prints as normal
say $t->strftime($ymd); # Segmentation fault
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Hi All, I'm getting a segmentation fault from the code above trying to format a date. After digging around a bit I see that it only faults on dates prior to 1970 (perhaps because POSIX doesn't support pre-1970 dates?). My goal is to write a subroutine that can do the following and work for pre-1970 dates:

sub formatTime {
    my ($date, $in_format, $out_format) = @_;
    $t = Time::Piece->strptime($date,$in_format);
    return $t->strftime($out_format);
}
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My question is, how do you folks deal with this? If it matters, I'm on Windows 8 with Strawberry Perl v5.26.0.1 64bit.

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