Now with Oracle date support!
SQL> declare
2 d date;
3 begin
4 datetest(d);
5 DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line('Perl set the date to '||to_char(d, 'MM/DD/YYYY'));
6 end;
7 /
Perl set the date to 10/26/1975
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
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