On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 04:10:10PM +1000, Rick Measham wrote:
> ... disconnect between calculation and representation. 
> DateTime's strength is it's rigid adherence to being Correct.

Right and the DateTime::Duration object isn't the right object to
do what I want since it doesn't have the information I want
(rigidly speaking).  Still...

If $date1 and $date2 contain specific dates and times.  Then the
conversion to $duration = ($date1-$date) has chosen to lose the
information I was seeking during the instantiation.  It was
possibly to know the number of seconds (without ambiguity) before
the internal representation was chosen.

Is that representation rigidly correct?  Clearly the
DateTime::Duration is rigidly correct, but is the overloading?
Something still doesn't seem right to me; but I'm clearly in the
wrong here.

Cheers again,

-Paul

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