On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 03:34:22PM -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote: > 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.
Yep, it sure was. I just checked it into CVS under modules/DateTime-Format-DateParse. I'll wait a few days for feedback before kicking it to CPAN. Cheers, -J --
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