On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, John Siracusa wrote: > > If you only have a year and day of year, then having a from_day_of_year > > constructor saves a _lot_ of calculation that end users have to do. > > OTOH, > > having to do 'DateTime->now(time_zone => "local")' isn't very onerous > > at > > all. > > ...unless that's the only way you will *ever* call now()! :) > Seriously, who is calling now() *without* time_zone => 'local' > arguments? I haven't done so yet, and would like to hear some examples > of this usage.
Me, because I know that 'local' won't always work ;) I'd be more likely to call it with an explicit time zone than with 'local'. > Here's example of what I expect to be common usage. Let's say someone > want the default date range in the text fields on a web form to be "the > past 30 hours." Joe Perl Programmer is going to glance at the DT docs > and then write: > > $start = DateTime->now->subtract(hours => 30)->strftime(...); > $end = DateTime->now->strftime(...); > > Joe Perl Programmer is going to be very surprised, IMO, and the fix is > not to add warnings to the docs... ;) Like I said, I think there are very good reasons not to default to local, especially since that it won't necessarily work at all. -dave /*======================= House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com =======================*/
