On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Peter J. Acklam wrote:

> > On your other point: I think it would be nice if DateTime::new
> > would accept years like '1974AD', '44BC, '2003CE' and '753BCE'.
> > But most people would say the year -753 meant 753 BC, so I would
> > keep that definition.
>
> This implies that someone converting from an ISO 8601 format must
> subtract one from the year if year <= 0 before feeding the value
> into the DateTime constructor.

This is why there will be a DateTime::Format::ISO8601 module for parsing
ISO formats ;)


-dave

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