Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 12:20:50AM -0400, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
Fortunately, you don't really need to convert your dates into time values,
just so you can convert them back into dates. Some modules which may be
more useful in this case include Date::Manip, Date::Calc, and POSIX (for
strftime).
I believe that the DateTime family of modules might be of most use here.
They aren't constrained by underlying localtime implementations.
DateTime is on CPAN, details on the DateTime project are at
http://datetime.perl.org/
Nicholas Clark
I moved this thread over from perl.perl5.porters (in case anyone wants
to follow it back to the original post) But basically my needs come down
to being able to parse arbitrary dates.
DateTime::Format::HTTP (aka HTTP::Date) for obvious reasons, barfs on
certain well-known date formats used by humans, so is not an adequate
substitute for Date::Parse.
I'm sort of surprised that there is no equivalent DateTime-using module
that would mirror the capabilities of Date::Parse. Dave, Have you talked
with Graham Barr at all about merging the arbitrary-date-parsing
capabilities (of Date::Parse) into the DateTime family tree?
