Benjamin Smith wrote: > On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:07:22PM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote: >> Hi Ron, >> >> * Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-26 22:00]: >>> I'm thinking about writing an ISO 8601 module, and would like >>> to know if you guys would consider it useful. >> see HTTP::Date. > > There's not just that; if you enter 'ISO8601' into search.cpan.org, > one immediately finds Datetime::Format::ISO8601 and Date::ISO8601. > > Is there some problem with all three of these? Could one of them be > improved to meet your needs?
I have looked at both. DateTime::Format::ISO8601 feels rather heavyweight, with dependencies on DateTime and DateTime::Format::Builder, and seems to be able to parse, but not format. Unless I got something wrong, Date::ISO8601 can format dates, but can't handle time or parse. There is another one, Date::ISO, which seems also be intended for dates, too. HTTP::Date would have been the best fit for what I needed recently; if only I had known it's there. I needed simple time <-> ISO8601 conversion for timestamps, with ActiveState's distribution installed on Windows, without being able to install additional modules - though being able to co-locate them with my program. libwww-perl would even have been bundled with ActiveState's distro. Ron
