On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:16:23PM -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > > > I just got back from Perl Whirl. Having spent most of the last week > > plugging DT as a replacement for many of the examples given in the > > talks, I think we need a converting to DT section in the FAQ or a > > separate document dedicated to this. > > > > For example (I saw this in many presentations ): > > > > use POSIX qw( strftime ); > > > > my $time = strftime( "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", localtime() ); > > Of course, if this is _all_ you'll ever need, converting to DT is almost > certainly a mistake.
And the FAQ needs to make that clear. Perhaps in a "When I<not> to use DateTime" section. I think including the key _facts_ from the recent heated debate (memory usage etc) would also be helpful. Tim.
