---
name: "CGI::Untaint::date"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "libcgi-untaint-date-perl"
version: "1.00-4"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/CGI::Untaint::date"
---

# CGI::Untaint::date(3pm)

validate a date

## NAME

CGI::Untaint::date - validate a date

## SYNOPSIS

```
  use CGI::Untaint;
  my $handler = CGI::Untaint->new($q->Vars);
  my $date = $handler->extract(-as_date => 'date');
```

## DESCRIPTION

### is\_valid

This Input Handler verifies that it is dealing with a reasonable date. Reasonably means anything that Date::Manip thinks is sensible, so you could use any of (for example):\
   "December 12, 2001"\
   "12th December, 2001"\
   "2001-12-12"\
   "next Tuesday"\
   "third Wednesday in March"

See Date::Manip for much more information on what date formats are acceptable.

The resulting date will be a Date::Simple object.  Date::Simple for more information on this.

### date\_format

By default ambiguous dates of the format 08/09/2001 will be treated as UK style (i.e. 8th September rather than 9th August)

If you want to change this, subclass it and override **date\_format()**

## WARNING

Date::Manip does not play nicely with taint mode. In order to work around this we locally clobber Date::Manip's 'timezone' code. As we're only interested in dates rather than times, this shouldn't be much of an issue. If it is, then please let me know!

## SEE ALSO

Date::Simple. Date::Manip.

## AUTHOR

Tony Bowden

## BUGS and QUERIES

Please direct all correspondence regarding this module to:\
   bug-CGI-Untaint-date@rt.cpan.org

## COPYRIGHT and LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Tony Bowden. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.