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 /*======================= House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com =======================*/
