On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 08:51:48AM +0800, Gunther Birznieks wrote: > >I'm a huge fan of passing Date::Simple objects, which can then take a > >strftime format string: > > [% date.format("%d %b %y") %] > > [% date.format("%Y-%m-%d") %] > And the latter does not require a programmer?
Of course not. It just requires someone who can read a simple chart of strftime formats. I've never worked with a designer who hasn't been able to understand the DESCRIPTION section of, for example, http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?strftime+3 It wouldn't be difficult to make up a more "designer friendly" version of it if it was really needed. Tony