On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Smylers wrote: > > And most importantly, it handles all the niggling little corner cases, > > Certainly you've given the impression of having thought about these more > than any of t'other date modules do -- and more than I want to have to > think about them -- so I'm happy to trust the modules to get the write > answers.
Hopefully more than just an impression ;) Actually, I don't know if I've thought about it more, I've just implemented more. My guess is that many other module authors thought a lot about things like time zones and leap seconds and then gave up ;) They're very painful. > Now that I'm quite familiar with DateTime I find it really easy to use. > Getting there was a little bumpy in places -- not because the API was > bad but cos I couldn't find where the bit I wanted to use was > documented. > > However I don't have any specific complaints with your docs -- now that > I look, all the things I couldn't see at first are clearly there. > Possibly it's just that because DateTime does so much there have to be > so many docs, which can be overwhelming at first. I'll ponder it some > more, and if I come up with any positive suggestions I'll join the > DateTime mailing list. (Some kind of intro tutorial/overview is one > posibility, but I'm hesitant to suggest combatting the problem of > overwhelming docs by adding yet more docs to them ...) There is a FAQ at datetime.perl.org. That'd be a good place to add tutorial-ish stuff, I think. I should probably highlight that in the docs. -dave /*======================= House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com =======================*/
