From: "Matt Sergeant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Aaron Johnson wrote:
>
> > +1 on Time::Piece. I like the more verbose example Gerald gave:
> >
> > $date3 = $date+{years=>1,months=>2,days=>3};
>
> FWIW, I would never support this directly, because the rhs is a hash, not
> an object or a number. But I would support:
>
> $date3 = $date + Time::Seconds->new({years => 1, months => 3, days => 3});
>
>From a technical point of view it's hash, from a theoretical point of view
it just another way to write the date as a number, because we have no build
in representation of a date in Perl. I don't see, beside the fact that is it
a number from a technical point of view, what's better with
$date2 = $date + (3 * ONE_YEAR) + (2 * ONE_DAY);
then the hash notation.
Gerald
P.S. That the parseing part of Time::Piece doesn't work on windows (due to
the missing strptime function), is a real backdraw and I don't be aware of
any function given you this functionality on windows :-(
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