Thanks to DBIx::Class and Catalyst, I finally had enough incentive to
write this module. A special thank you to Dan Horne for posting a RFC
version to this list a few months ago.
I had a bit of a problem with timestamps (which I hope to overcome soon)
and with time zones, which might need some help from others.
Currently I am using DateTime::Format::Builder and creating 'strptime'
parsers, but find that 'America/New_York' is not accepted by %Z. I see
that DateTime::Format::Strptime created an %O format for Olson time zone
names. That does not seem right, at first glance, especially since
DateTime does not support that format character in its 'strftime'. It
seems like it should use %{time_zone_long_name}, like DateTime does.
Or, even better, allow %Z to be either an offset, abbreviation or Olson
time zone name, like the time_zone argument accepts.
Coming out of Oracle, the time zone may be any one of those, so having
flexible %Z parsing would be nice.
I'll have requests for updates to DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::Oracle
and others relatively soon.
Enjoy!
-kolibrie
