> > $date2 = $date+'3Y 2D'; # 3 Years and 2 days
>
> $date2 = $date + (3 * ONE_YEAR) + (2 * ONE_DAY);
>
> > $date3 = $date+[1,2,3]; # $date plus 1 year, 2 months, 3 days
> > $date4 = $date+'3-1-5' # $date plus 3 years, 1 months, 5 days
>
> Similar for these.
>
ok, I see
> Yes, it's more verbose. Not much I can say about that. I could potentially
> add some sort of strptime functionality to Time::Seconds so you could
> parse '3Y 2D', and '3-1-5'.
>
> > Of course that could be done with Time::Piece, but you have to create to
> > objects.
>
> Not true, as you see. I'm not convinced of the value of all this
> overloading of stringification. It seems like very dangerous syntactic
> sugar to me. And it's almost certainly not internationalised.
>
I agree to you for the stringification, but I find something like
$date3 = $date+[1,2,3]; # $date plus 1 year, 2 months, 3 days
really handy and maybe
$date3 = $date+{years=>1,months=>2,days=>3}; # $date plus 1 year, 2
months, 3 days
this is as verbose as the string version, but doesn't have the disadvantages
of it. I guess both wouldn't be hard to add to Time::Piece.
One point from my point of view that is speaking for Time::Piece is, that
Matt is very active (not only) on the p5ee list, so we could expect that he
will adapt Time::Piece for p5ee as far as it is needed.
+1 for Time::Piece
Gerald
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