Dave Rolsky wrote:
I tend to not favor this sort of API, because it's basically a global.
That means that if two CPAN modules both set it, the last one to call
this method wins. It also doesn't play nice with mod_perl, where you may
be running multiple apps under one persistent interpreter.
Many (some?) of the other format modules let you create a format object
and then call the parse_datetime method on that object. This is
specifically so you can set options that don't become globals.
Eg:
my $parser = new DateTime::Format::MySQL(
time_zone => "UTC"
);
my $dt = $parser->parse_datetime( $db_data );
print $dt->time_zone->name;
# UTC
It would be fairly easy for Nick to look at the way other Format modules
do it and submit a patch for DT:F:MySQL to do this...
Cheers!
Rick Measham
