chomp question

[siren jones]

What is happening here?

$date = `/bin/date + %y%m%d`;
print "$date";

prints
>20010914
>

But if I add:

$a = chomp($date);
print "$a";


it prints
>


What happens to the number?  Why doesn't chomp just get rid of the newline?

Thank you in advance.

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