On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, brian moseley wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Stephen Adkins wrote:
> >
> > > Use the following modules for dates and times
> > >
> > > Class::Date
> > > Date::Parse
> > > Date::Format
> >
> > i propose that we make this our official recommendation for
> > p5ee software and that we accept proposals for altering the
> > recommendation as they occur.
> >
>
> <advocate type="devils">
>
> I'm not actually sure this is something that should be set in stone here
> right now. I'm totally with Greg in his point that this project should be
> focussed on the middle tier space, but I would also like to suggest that
> this implies that we can make no assumptions about the implementation
> platform of the adjoining tiers in the application. There may be
> compelling reasons for me to implement my UI layer in Java and my data
> storage layer in C++ or Ada, I'm going to be looking at interoperability
> as a key feature in the platform I use to implement the stuff between
> them. So for instance could any of this stuff pick the bits out of :
>
> <prop:sentAt>2000-05-14T03:00:00+08:00</prop:sentAt>
This is ISO 8601 format. For Time::Piece it's just $t->datetime(), since
it's such a standard formatting. We talked about making it the default
stringification, but that would have made it incompatible with
localtime().
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