On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Rick Measham wrote:
It's been discussed before, and the main reason is below. There's just no way
to properly parse a datetime. You can make 'best guesses'. But you should
probably use something else to make your guesses, then offer them to the user
to pick which they meant.
DateTime prides itself on being accurate and predictable and should never
produce unexpected results.
Eh, you're sort of putting words in my mouth here.
I'd be happy to see Date::Parse style parsing as a DateTime::Format
module, with the understanding that it may get things wrong or be unable
to parse things at all.
I think Graham has even mentioned something about it himself, though that
could be complete tish.
It'd be super trivial to wrap Date::Parse in a DateTime::Format module.
-dave
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