On Sunday, June 22, 2003 Dave Rolsky wrote: >On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Bruce Van Allen wrote: >> The point of DT::Format::XXX is parsing and formatting: >> - to return a DT object if given an XXX-formatted date/time string; >>and >> - to return an XXX-formatted string from a DT object. > >Well, the formats can also include formats for durations, recurrences, >etc. ISO has duration formats, and iCal has durations, periods (aka >spans), and recurrences. >
Yes. I should have said "The BASIC point of DT::Format:XXX ..." The other formats are specific to the system to be parsed/formatted (MySQL, iCal, etc.). The context was a question that seemed to be veering away from the DT::F API, by not returning a DT object from parsing a string. (Unless I misunderstood.) - Bruce __bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz__ca__
