Re: Best way to handle invalid times in perl Date::Time

[Zefram]

Scott Aitken wrote:
>Is there a way to handle to the fatal error, or force DT to return
>undef if the date/time is invalid?

Yes.  This is a general Perl programming issue.

        $dt = eval { local $SIG{__DIE__}; DateTime->new(@args) };
        unless(defined $dt) {
                # error message is in $@
        }

-zefram